Re: IPv6 uptake

[Mike Hammett <nanog () ics-il net>]

" We can seriously lose NAT for v6 and not lose 
anything of worth." 

I'm not going to participate in the security conversation, but we do absolutely need something to fill the role of NAT 
in v6. If it's already there or not, I don't know. Use case: Joe's Taco Shop. Joe doesn't want a down Internet 
connection to prevent transactions from completing, so he purchases two diverse broadband connections, say a cable 
connection and a DSL connection. When ISP fails, traffic will have to exit ISP B. He's not getting a /48, LOA, BGP, 
etc. to do it on his own, he's just going to do simple NAT. 



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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 
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Midwest-IX 
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----- Original Message -----

From: "Michael Thomas" <mike () mtcc com> 
To: nanog () nanog org 
Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2024 12:50:46 PM 
Subject: Re: IPv6 uptake 


On 2/17/24 10:26 AM, Owen DeLong via NANOG wrote: 
> > On Feb 16, 2024, at 14:20, Jay R. Ashworth <jra () baylink com> wrote: 
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > > From: "Justin Streiner" <streinerj () gmail com> 
> > > 4. Getting people to unlearn the "NAT=Security" mindset that we were forced 
> > > to accept in the v4 world. 
> > NAT doesn't "equal" security. 
> >
> > But it is certainly a *component* of security, placing control of what internal 
> > nodes are accessible from the outside in the hands of the people inside. 
> Uh, no… no it is not. Stateful inspection (which the kind of NAT (actually NAPT) you are assuming here depends on) is 
> a component of security. You can do stateful inspection without mutilating the header and have all the same security 
> benefits without losing or complicating the audit trail. 

Exactly. As I said elsewhere, the security properties of NAT were a 
post-hoc rationalization. In the mean time, it has taken on its own life 
as if not NAT'ing (but still having stateful firewalls) would end the 
known security universe. We can seriously lose NAT for v6 and not lose 
anything of worth. 

Mike