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Re: Why people by NATs

2004-11-23 08:49:12
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Tim Chown wrote:

On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 01:44:30PM +0100, Jeroen Massar wrote:
On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 12:17 +0000, Tim Chown wrote:
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 05:11:26PM +0100, Jeroen Massar wrote:

Depends on the type of home user ;)
Nevertheless, most homes currently only consist of maybe 3 ethernet
segments (wired, wireless, office or something) and maybe a max of 20
hosts. Changing the IP's of those hosts should not be a problem even if
you had to do it manually. Most of these NAT boxes come with built-in
DHCP support, hopefully the will come with IPv6 and RA and maybe DHCPv6
support too in the near future (Yamaha has them already :)

Or you just modify a Linksys router :)

Ack, nicely turn that NAT box into a real router by flashing it with a
This is unfortunately not something that most people dare to do. Then
again, I know that quite a lot of people 'upgraded' their SpeedTouch
Home's to Pro's for somewhat the same purpose. And for that matter a lot
of people upgrade their Xboxes, PS2's etc. There is always somebody who
can do this around.

I didn't say that your mother could do this, but given that some amateurs
have already modified the Linksys to do v6 then it would not be difficult
for Cisco/Linksys to do so in a short timeframe, if they chose to.

As for NAT, then v4+NAT dual-stack IPv6 will be very common.

And from a dual stack v4+NAT/ v6 implementation over a year old, a very
effective solution.

Scott


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Tim

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