On Sat, 18 Aug 2007, Terry Gray wrote:
On Sat, 18 Aug 2007, Keith Moore wrote:
one of the areas in which I think the IPv4 design failed is that it
didn't really follow the catenet model. it was not possible to extend
the network from any point. and this is part of what led to NATs,
because there really was a need to be able to do that.
...
2. Essentially free addresses are really important to a lot of people,
especially anyone responsible for bunches of machines... Without them,
something like NAT is guaranteed to persist, in order to minimize
cost.
And the growing adoption of virtualization will contribute further to the
numbers of "machines" needing unique addressibility ...
Dave Morris
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