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Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA


From: Seth Mattinen <sethm () rollernet us>
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 11:30:28 -0700

On 10/18/2010 11:19, Henning Brauer wrote:
* Owen DeLong <owen () delong com> [2010-10-18 18:29]:
The good news is that stateful inspection doesn't go away in IPv6.

that is right.

It works just fine. All that goes away is the header mangling.

that is partially true. it can work just fine, but all the bloat in v6
makes it way harder to implement the state tracking than it should be.


What bloat? Larger address space?

~Seth


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