Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 24 Jun 2007 22:52:34 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: Scaling Max IP address limitation |
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On Jun 24 2007 13:44, david@lang.hm 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.
Client-transparent SOCKS5 proxy. It already exists today! ;-) (Not as performant as an in-kernel NAT, though.)
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