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As someone who only understands the benefit of IPv6 to be the much larger address pool, can you elaborate on how it would make this situation simpler?
by Zetaphor 3y ago
As someone who only understands the benefit of IPv6 to be the much larger address pool, can you elaborate on how it would make this situation simpler?
- chainingsolid 3y agohttps://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works/ https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works/ This was posted to HN recently and has the answer you asked for better written up the I can write here.
- amarshall 3y agoThe problem is NAT as it makes it impossible to directly address, and NAT doesn’t exist in IPv6 (because NAT is primarily needed to workaround limited public addresses).