Can Large Scale NAT Save IPv4?

Julie188 writes "The sales pitch was that IPv6, with its zillions of new IP addresses, would eliminate the need for network address translation altogether. But Jeff Doyle, one of the guys who literally wrote the book on IPv6, suggests that not only will NAT be needed, but it will be needed to save IPv4 at the tipping point of IPv6 adoption. 'I've written previously that as we make the slow — and long overdue — transition from IPv4 to IPv6, we will soon be stuck with an awkward interim period in which the only new globally routable addresses we can get are IPv6, but most public content we want to reach is still IPv4. Large Scale NAT (LSN, also known as Carrier Grade NAT or CGN) is an essential tool for stretching a service provider's public IPv4 address space during this transitional period.'"

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[microbee]

So the same guy advocated IPv6 and now it's IPv4 again? I'm dazzled! This sounds like what you hear during an election.

Re:Fuck you.

[Michael Kristopeit 8]

if the current ISP is refusing to update features you require be updated, then there is a need...

only an idiot would create an inferior ISP... only an idiot would assume anyone might create an inferior ISP.

if you want IPv6, and your current ISP doesn't offer it, START YOUR OWN ISP.

you're the one that claimed it wasn't an option... an obviously wrong assertion... you know who make obviously wrong assertions?

IDIOTS.

Re:Fuck you.

[Michael Kristopeit 7]

i have over 25 of my own sites...

you can't make me get out of anything.

you seem incapable of nearly everything... is that why you don't post under your given name?