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Most cheap home routers are Linux-based, so the adoption plan seems trivial. Linus should just make STCP NAT support the default with a comment "router manufac
by drdaeman 13y ago
Most cheap home routers are Linux-based, so the adoption plan seems trivial.
Linus should just make STCP NAT support the default with a comment "router manufacturers - please don't disable", so the next time router vendors update their kernels, it gets built into.
Then just wait for 3-4 years.
- zurn 13y agoLook how long it's taking IPv6 support in consumer NAT boxes, and that's something that's hyped and all vendors are officialy drumming for it, and has been finished spec-wise since the 90s. SCTP has had 14+ years - SCTP made standards track in 2000 (rfc2960) and was in use before that. Chicken and egg. This is why NAT is bad. It's has introduced a systemic freeze in the Internet, breaking the inert router/smart host model that used to enable deployment of new protocols.
- drdaeman 13y agoIPv6 is complicated matter. Even if kernel has ipv6 module/support built in, it's still a very tiny first step for router to support IPv6. On the other hand, STCP NAT support is just one kernel config option away and no further configuration's needed. A complete no-brainer - just persuade those building routers' firmware to not tick it off.