NAT still exists for IPv6

Re:NAT still exists for IPv6 by hotpotamus on Monday August 15, 2022 @07:13PM (#32476776)

I've set up SLAAC before but it's not something I do often. Frankly I'm still on the fence of whether or not v6 was a good idea. Fiddling in the drawers with the MAC address is EUI-64 though, and I was under the impression that the SLAAC "client" doesn't broadcast any kind of discovery message - it just listens to the network to determine the prefix, and then generates the EUI-64 portion as its host address since it should be globally unique as it's based on its MAC address.

Like I said, I don't touch v6 much and I'm pretty surprised at how far we've made it past v4 allocations drying up and everything still seems to work.

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Re:NAT still exists for IPv6 by gerdesj on Monday August 15, 2022 @07:25PM (#32476930)

You'll be fine for a long time. IPv6 is not quite right but not for the reasons that you'll usually see on HN/Reddit/whatevs.

It does work pretty well already but I put it rather below the significance of say global warming as a thing to really worry about.

Give it a go if you get a prefix from your ISP. It's worth a play.

This sort of thing takes 50+ years to work. You have to think like an Engineer with a lot of time to play with. The internet is everywhere, it doesn't change overnight.

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