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Re: moving to IPv6
From: Vadim Antonov <avg () pluris com>
Date: Sun, 02 Nov 1997 19:50:27 -0800
Sean M. Doran wrote:
The thing that amazes me about people who are fans of IPv6 is that they have realized that NAT is THE fundamental scaling technology for the Internet.
Well, there are two equivalent approaches to the scaling problem: NAT or dynamic address allocation. I'm not convinced that NAT is better in long term; though i won't argue that this is the most practical near-term solution. The advantage of dynamic addressing is that it preserves the clean separation between application and transport layers, which is more kosher architectually, and allows to make a lot of things much simpler. The disadvantage is, it requires serious rework of many things, while NAT can be just a "box" in a middle.
Routing issues are EXACTLY the same in IP and IPv6, the only difference is the width of the addresses, which worsens the poor scaling properties of IP with current routing protocols.
The claim that routing in IPv6 will be magically fixed is exactly what prompted me to lose interest in IPv6 completely, and tag the IPv6 crew as clowns. --vadim
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- Re: moving to IPv6 Thomas Narten (Nov 03)
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- Re: moving to IPv6 Thomas Narten (Nov 03)
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- Overloaded semantics (was Re: moving to IPv6) Ran Atkinson (Nov 03)
- Re: Overloaded semantics (was Re: moving to IPv6) Thomas Narten (Nov 05)
- Re: moving to IPv6 Dirk Harms-Merbitz (Nov 03)
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