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Is nobody else afraid that instead of IPv6 we're now going to get more and more layers of NAT? Sure, for us geeks that's totally unthinkable... no servers, no
by steadicat 16y ago
Is nobody else afraid that instead of IPv6 we're now going to get more and more layers of NAT?
Sure, for us geeks that's totally unthinkable... no servers, no P2P?!? But most users, who are content with just web & email, will probably never notice the difference.
ISPs will surely find it easier to turn NAT on than to switch to IPv6, and the backlash might be close to nonexistent.
- SoftwareMaven 16y agoBitTorrent might save the day on that one. It is one of the few things that will be impacted negatively for "normal" users.
- wmf 16y agoIt's not clear that NAT is cheaper than IPv6; huge NAT boxes are pretty expensive.
- drdaeman 16y agoThere will be NATs, one way or another. Nobody plans to start everything from scratch, so IPv6-to-IPv4 gateways (NAT64) seem inevitable.