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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?
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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.

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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.
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