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Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space
From: Ray Soucy <rps () maine edu>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 13:28:26 -0400
""" Why would you want NAT66? ICK!!! One of the best benefits of IPv6 is being able to eliminate NAT. NAT was a necessary evil for IPv4 address conservation. It has no good use in IPv6. """ NAT still has its uses; virtualization and cloud infrastructure being one of the most legitimate. Certain kinds of NAT, such as RFC 6296, are very useful, and one of the best methods we have today of delivering IPv6 to smaller networks who wish to have private address space internally ... be it for consistency, ISP independence, multi-homing, or just downright operational parity. I really think all this focus on anti-NAT talk has held-back adoption (and FWIW I used to be one of the people banging the anti-NAT drum the loudest). Keep in mind the collective attitude in communities like this one about NAT for v6 trickles down into decisions made elsewhere; the Linux Netfilter team, for example, is met by a lot of hostility when they talk about including things like 6296 in ip6tables; and as a result it's been left out (even though it's functional). -- Ray Soucy Epic Communications Specialist Phone: +1 (207) 561-3526 Networkmaine, a Unit of the University of Maine System http://www.networkmaine.net/
Current thread:
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space, (continued)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space John Levine (Jul 15)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space Lee (Jul 16)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space Karl Auer (Jul 16)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space Owen DeLong (Jul 16)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space Owen DeLong (Jul 16)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space -Hammer- (Jul 16)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space Owen DeLong (Jul 16)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space -Hammer- (Jul 16)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space valdis . kletnieks (Jul 16)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space -Hammer- (Jul 16)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space Ray Soucy (Jul 16)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space Seth Mos (Jul 16)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space Owen DeLong (Jul 16)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space Seth Mos (Jul 17)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space Rajendra Chayapathi (rchayapa) (Jul 16)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space Oliver (Jul 16)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space Rajendra Chayapathi (rchayapa) (Jul 16)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space Matt Addison (Jul 16)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space Karl Auer (Jul 16)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space Jimmy Hess (Jul 16)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space Karl Auer (Jul 16)