NAT Is the Enemy of Low Power Devices

Posted by hasheddan on Friday October 18, 2024 @07:31AM
from the blog.golioth.io dept.

https://blog.golioth.io/nat-is-the-enemy-of-low-power-devices/

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Re:NAT Is the Enemy of Low Power Devices by steve_avery on Friday October 18, 2024 @01:54PM (#41881822)

Perhaps I am underthinking things here, but this seems like a good use case to just use UDP here. Save all the power consumed in the original connection set up and just the router will handle NAT re-allocation whenever you phone home, right? Responses to those messages should be properly routed to your device. Building on top of TCP seems like a lot of effort for this network situation

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Re:NAT Is the Enemy of Low Power Devices by gatane on Friday October 18, 2024 @07:53PM (#41884515)

IPv6 is the answer, yet no one is implementing it on scale. Damn.

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Re:NAT Is the Enemy of Low Power Devices by acdha on Friday October 18, 2024 @08:33PM (#41884675)

IPv6 is about 40% of Internet traffic and climbing. It’s disappointing that it hasn’t been faster but I think that qualifies as scale.

https://radar.cloudflare.com/adoption-and-usage

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