NAT Is the Enemy of Low Power Devices

Re:NAT Is the Enemy of Low Power Devices by Dylan16807 on Friday February 14, 2025 @01:45AM (#43045578)

Are you talking about eliminating NAT on IPv4?

IPv6, set up the normal way, does not allocate IPs. Devices can and will have several at once and their VMs can easily get some too.

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Re:NAT Is the Enemy of Low Power Devices by wmf on Friday February 14, 2025 @01:48AM (#43045593)

The enterprise corrupted IPv6 and disabled SLAAC so devices have to use whatever DHCPv6 gives them.

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Re:NAT Is the Enemy of Low Power Devices by somanyphotons on Friday February 14, 2025 @12:40PM (#43050857)

How does that work for android devices? I heard they don't allow dhcp provided addresses?

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Re:NAT Is the Enemy of Low Power Devices by wmf on Friday February 14, 2025 @01:41PM (#43051587)

The Android problem only occurs in an IPv6-only enterprise network which is very rare. Otherwise Android can use IPv4.

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