Re:By installing NAT, MIT stifles innovation
by CamperBob2 on Monday June 26, 2017 @03:10PM
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Has any security threat ever relied on NAT hole punching from the outside in? The only cases I can think of involve defective gateway firmware, and IPv6 is hardly a panacea for that.
My guess is that IPv6 is the ISDN of the 21st century... an intermediate step between two networking paradigms, one being IPv4 and the other being something we haven't seen yet. IPv6 will appeal to specialists but will never, by itself, see wide adoption. The fact is that NAT works for 99.99% of users, and works very well.
My guess is that IPv6 is the ISDN of the 21st century... an intermediate step between two networking paradigms, one being IPv4 and the other being something we haven't seen yet. IPv6 will appeal to specialists but will never, by itself, see wide adoption. The fact is that NAT works for 99.99% of users, and works very well.