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One of the hopes for IPv6 was that it'd deliver us from IP address scarcity and hence the need for NAT and all the associated difficulty of NAT traversal.
by FeepingCreature 9y ago
One of the hopes for IPv6 was that it'd deliver us from IP address scarcity and hence the need for NAT and all the associated difficulty of NAT traversal.
- hardwaresofton 9y agoThis is what I thought -- why would you neet Network Address Translation (NAT) when the address space is big enough to have everyone have an individual address? No need to traverse a router, it just becomes another hop in the chain.
- dagw 9y agoAnother positive (unintended) consequence of needing NAT everywhere is that it means most devices end up behind some sort of firewall by default.