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ISP-level NAT is a nightmare scenario for anything P2P; you can say goodbye to skype and bittorrent under "effectively unlimited" NAT'd IPv4.
by msbarnett 16y ago
ISP-level NAT is a nightmare scenario for anything P2P; you can say goodbye to skype and bittorrent under "effectively unlimited" NAT'd IPv4.
- cperciva 16y agoPersonally, I'd say that's an advantage.
- stcredzero 16y agoMeh. My guess is you'd see someone provide a cloud-based relay solution to enable initial connections. The problem is really no different than that faced by Skype and NAT. Even if provided for-pay, it would be dirt cheap yet have huge margins.
- omh 16y agoThis is happening already for much of the 3G internet (at least here in the UK). Perhaps we'll end up with an internet-routable IPv4 address being a chargable extra from ISPs. That could be easier for them than rolling out IPv6, at least in the short term.
- wladimir 16y agoHere, providers are already working on rolling out IPv6. I think initially they will give both a IPv4 and IPv6 address. If you stay on IPv4, fine, but you'll eventually have to live with NAT.