Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 24 Jun 2007 13:44:29 -0700 (PDT) | From | david@lang ... | Subject | Re: Scaling Max IP address limitation |
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On Sun, 24 Jun 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> > On Jun 24 2007 15:08, Kyle Moffett wrote: >> >> Do you really need that many IP addresses? When somebody finally gets >> around to implementing REDIRECT support for ip6tables then you could >> just redirect them all to the same port on the local system. > > The way I see it, it's: "if someone gets around to implement *IPv6 NAT*" > (which, if its designers were asked, is contrary to the idea of ipv6).
true, but back in the real world it's sometimes desriable to hid _chich_ specific machine somethign comes from. so I expect that implementation of NAT is going tohappen at some point before it's widely deployed.
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