[LINK] There goes the neighbourhood...

[Kim Holburn]

On 2011/May/11, at 9:48 PM, Karl Auer wrote:
> But to make a connection - at least, an inbound connection through NAT -
> you need MORE than the IP addresses in the headers.

You keep on going on about how bad NAT is and how it's going to go away.

Well the problem is that the real issue here is not how difficult it is to make an inbound connection through NAT, it's how difficult it is to make an inbound connection through a firewall and that problem is not going away in a perfect IPv6 world.  I doubt we're ever going to go to a world with no firewalls.

Also I wonder NAT is just going to go away even if some of the original reasons for it are.

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