Such a product is available already, check out :
www.maxgate.net/product_3200.htm
I believe the device does use NAT ( :-< ) but there are other devices in the
family, that do IPSEC. I am still waiting for mine to be delivered, sorry if I
am a little wooly about it, I haven't had chance to play with it yet, but it
looks promising.
At the moment the cost is about $300 USD, but as Andre points out the price will
drop eventually. Also I had believed that IPv6 had enough addresses for every
person on planet Earth and then some.
But here is an intresting question,
Would the address be assigned to a person or a property, on the basis that if
the person moved would the address go with them or stay with the house ?
What happened if the house was destroyed or the person died, would the address
be returned to the registry, from where it was issued, to be re-allocated to a
new property or person ?
Will we eventually get to the point where we are all as unique as our IPv6
addresses, and new born children are assigned an address automatically, when
they are born ?
Maybe george orwell and aldous huxley got it right ;->
Jim
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This is my personal opinion only and does not represent the technical direction
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Andre-John Mas <ajmas(_at_)uforce(_dot_)com> on 03/08/2000 15:41:52
Sent by: Andre-John Mas <ajmas(_at_)uforce(_dot_)com>
To: "Rakers, Jason" <jrakers @ALLEGHENYENERGY.COM>
cc: "'Dennis Glatting'" <dennis.glatting @SOFTWARE-MUNITIONS.COM>,
ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org (Jim Stephenson-Dunn/C/HQ/3Com)
Subject: Re: Addresses and ports and taxes -- oh my!
"Rakers, Jason" wrote:
When household appliances begin becoming IP addressable, I think we will see
a move towards assigning an Internet IP address per household (much like
today's street address). The household will perform NAT for all devices
within (one street address can house many people, not just one).
The factor in all this is cheap firewalls/routers. With these coming
down in price they will be installed standard when asking for a cable
internet connection, or such. Also these boxes, probably being the size
of a phoneset would probably also include a DHCP server for addressing
the
various devices in the home, much like what is done for Sun's SunRay
line
of devices. If this does happen I just hope that they offer the option
for expert users to configure the devices themselves. The price factor
that will make these an option is arounf USD 100.
Andre