[LINK] There goes the neighbourhood...

Karl Auer kauer at biplane.com.au
Thu May 12 01:56:08 AEST 2011


On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 01:39 +1000, Kim Holburn wrote:
> 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.

It's not hard to make an inbound connection through a firewall at all.
Provided I (the network operator) want that connection to be possible.

NAT just stops everything, as a non-switch-offable side-effect of its
multiplexing function.
  
> Also I wonder NAT is just going to go away even if some of the
> original reasons for it are.

Indeed. We can but hope.

Regards, K.

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