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Re:AWS and their billions in IPv4 addresses by jaywalk on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @03:31PM (#24841451)
The cellular carriers are now doing CGNAT for IPv4, so supporting IPv6 means less traffic has to run through their CGNAT gear.
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Re:AWS and their billions in IPv4 addresses by usr1106 on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @07:07PM (#24843216)
I have noticed that when looking at the internal IPv4 address of my phone. What's the technical difference between Carrier Grade NAT and "traditional" NAT?

/Not working in networking

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Re:AWS and their billions in IPv4 addresses by bluGill on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @07:54PM (#24843541)
From what I can tell it is just the power. Traditional/home NAT runs on low powered computers. CNAT is the same thing, but with very powerful computers with a lot of memory so they can handle thousands of users (possibly each with gigabit internet connections!) behind one IP address.
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