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Re:By installing NAT, MIT stifles innovation by 0xdeadbeefbabe on Monday June 26, 2017 @12:53PM (#14638243)
> Actually... MIT forcing an entire generation of future engineers to deal with IPv6

Then why are they doing NAT?

Edit: Although moving to NAT might push innovation too, or at least some clever hacks. Speaking of that, if you want use a relay to do NAT traversal then is TCP over ARQ (on UDP) as bad as TCP over TCP?

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Re:By installing NAT, MIT stifles innovation by ajross on Monday June 26, 2017 @01:01PM (#14638329)
They're doing NAT for IPv4. The IPv6 network space listed in the slide is publicly routable and almost certainly untranslated. It's possible it's firewalled though.
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Re:By installing NAT, MIT stifles innovation by kevin_b_er on Monday June 26, 2017 @01:16PM (#14638498)
> Then why are they doing NAT?

Because they sold their IPv4 addresses.

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Re:By installing NAT, MIT stifles innovation by hawkling on Monday June 26, 2017 @01:31PM (#14638661)
Indeed! The only reason they're doing this is clearly that they want to sell even more IPv4 addresses. Because even with the current /9, it's more than enough to go around the campus.
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