Re:Software Infrastructure 2.0: A Wishlist
by otabdeveloper4 on Thursday April 22, 2021 @03:56AM
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> Honestly I think you don't understand what NAT is.
Yes, I do. It's the "masquerade" rule in my router's firewall rules table.
> The only thing you "lose" is that your whole house looks like one device.
That's a feature, not a bug.
> You gain a significant reduction in latency, online games will work better and p2p networking (such as voip) will have significantly fewer problems
99.99999% of those problems are caused by shoddy Wi-Fi. IPv6 does nothing to fix it. (Directional antennas and a standard way to bridge L2 over Wi-Fi is the real solution; expanding the IPv4 address space does nothing.)
Again: what's the benefit of IPv6 to me? So far I only see downsides.
Yes, I do. It's the "masquerade" rule in my router's firewall rules table.
> The only thing you "lose" is that your whole house looks like one device.
That's a feature, not a bug.
> You gain a significant reduction in latency, online games will work better and p2p networking (such as voip) will have significantly fewer problems
99.99999% of those problems are caused by shoddy Wi-Fi. IPv6 does nothing to fix it. (Directional antennas and a standard way to bridge L2 over Wi-Fi is the real solution; expanding the IPv4 address space does nothing.)
Again: what's the benefit of IPv6 to me? So far I only see downsides.