[nycbug-talk] IPv6 NY-US Roll Call

Peter Wright pete at nomadlogic.org
Thu Mar 22 18:47:18 EDT 2007


> deep_blue at sebek.org wrote:
>> Is there any other advantage to IPv6 other than virtually unlimited
>> addresses?  Not that I am trivializing that fact.
>
> Wikipedia explains it better than I can.  One upside/downside I will
> mention here is that it eliminates the need for NAT, the downside of
> this is people can't rely on NAT to work as a firewall and need to
> configure a proper one.
>

heck, i'd consider that an upside as well - a NAT should never take the
place of a firewall IMHO.

-pete


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