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The difference is that traversal protocols like UDP hole punching work deterministically almost 100% of the time in an IPv6 environment but are flaky in an IPv4
by api 5y ago
The difference is that traversal protocols like UDP hole punching work deterministically almost 100% of the time in an IPv6 environment but are flaky in an IPv4 NAT environment.
It also means that you never experience port exhaustion on large networks, which is a problem for large IPv4 NAT deployments.