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Re:The end of the cloud is coming by FeepingCreature on Monday November 06, 2017 @02:06AM (#15633846)
One of the hopes for IPv6 was that it'd deliver us from IP address scarcity and hence the need for NAT and all the associated difficulty of NAT traversal.
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Re:The end of the cloud is coming by hardwaresofton on Monday November 06, 2017 @02:45AM (#15633955)
This is what I thought -- why would you neet Network Address Translation (NAT) when the address space is big enough to have everyone have an individual address? No need to traverse a router, it just becomes another hop in the chain.
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Re:The end of the cloud is coming by dagw on Monday November 06, 2017 @05:37AM (#15634566)
Another positive (unintended) consequence of needing NAT everywhere is that it means most devices end up behind some sort of firewall by default.
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