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Happy 30th birthday to RFC 1631 ("NAT"), the "short term solution" we all rely on (datatracker.ietf.org)

submitted 6 months ago by BodilessGaze to c/[email protected]

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From the conclusion:

NAT may be a good short term solution to the address depletion and scaling problems. This is because it requires very few changes and can be installed incrementally. NAT has several negative characteristics that make it inappropriate as a long term solution, and may make it inappropriate even as a short term solution. Only implementation and experimentation will determine its appropriateness.

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I wrote so many essays and exam answers in the late 90s on how IPv6 would come in and fix everything and I’m really feeling this.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

It did, wherever it's used. If you can ditch backwards compatibility in your network and just use ipv6, everything gets so much simpler.