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It's not about allowing random traffic in, it's about having a unitary address space. The two are orthogonal.
by dboreham 3y ago
It's not about allowing random traffic in, it's about having a unitary address space. The two are orthogonal.
- lxgr 3y agoThey do go hand in hand, though. Having globally unique addresses removes the need of (stateful) mapping tables, which in turn make it easier to intentionally allow traffic in. In other words, it's quite hard to even name the traffic you want to let in if names are globally overloaded.