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Re:The world in which IPv6 was a good design by happymellon on Sunday April 19, 2026 @04:47PM (#47827502)
> That's a fair point. In my mind, residential ISPs give out public IP addresses and CGNAT is just for cell phones.

If you are giving out public IPs then you aren't really NAT'ing.

Re:The world in which IPv6 was a good design by mort96 on Sunday April 19, 2026 @04:53PM (#47827537)
Hm? The ISP gives one IP address to a router in a house, that router uses NAT to let all the computers inside that house use the Internet through the one single shared public IP address. That's NAT, isn't it?
Re:The world in which IPv6 was a good design by IcePic on Monday April 20, 2026 @04:20AM (#47831585)
Well, in a strict sense, it is "you" who chooses to run a nat'ing router there, you could just have one single computer per ISP connection. Or have it run a proxy for you, or nat.

I mean, I understand that this feels normal today, that 10-20-50 devices need internet and that the way to manage that is to nat the connections, but your ISP isn't doing nat, it is you.

Re:The world in which IPv6 was a good design by mort96 on Monday April 20, 2026 @08:26AM (#47833283)
The model of "every Internet subscriber gets one IP address" only works thanks to NAT.