[CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?
Adam Tauno Williams
awilliam at whitemice.org
Tue Dec 7 10:26:43 UTC 2010
On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 17:15 -0500, Bob McConnell wrote:
> > So, spending one or two or 100s /64 subnets with public IPv6 addresses
> > which is completely blocked in a firewall will serve exactly the same
> > purpose as a site-local subnet. But this /64 net may get access to the
> > Internet *if* allowed by the firewall. This is not possible with
> > site-local at all. And of course, this is without NAT in addition.
> > I hope this made it a little bit clearer.
> Clear as mud. If I understand you correctly, I have to say that IPv6 is
> broken by design.
It isn't.
> I have a double handful of computers on my home
> network. Each of them needs access to the Internet to get updates to the
> OS and various applications. However, I do *NOT* want each and every one
> of them to show up as a unique address outside of my network.
Why? Things will only work better. NAT is not some magic sauce, it is
a *HACK*.
> With IP4
> and m0n0wall running as the NAT, they are all translated to the single
> IP address that Roadrunner assigned to my Firewall. I need to continue
> that mapping.
Why? There is no reason. You are wrong, you do *NOT* need to "continue
that mapping". That mapping is pointless.
> If IPv6 cannot do that, then I hope Time-Warner continues
> to ignore it and stays with their current address structure.
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