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Re: v6 & DSL / Cable modems [was: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space (IPv6-MW)]


From: Mohacsi Janos <mohacsi () niif hu>
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 12:39:33 +0100 (CET)




On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, Andy Davidson wrote:

On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 07:19:37PM -0500, Robert D. Scott wrote:
Wii should not even consider developing " a cool new protocol for the Wii"
that is not NAT compliant via V4 or V6. And if they do, we should elect a
NANOG regular to go "POSTAL" and handle the problem. The solution to many of
these networking conundrums should rest with the application people, and NOT
the network people.

You are wrong, there are lots of new ... and not so new ... protocols that
*can* work via ALGs or other NAT traversal systems, but tend to work worse
than if they'd had end to end visibility.  The various VoIP protocols are
the perfect example.


Example please!
Kind Regards,
                Janos Mohacsi>


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