Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

On 12/6/10 6:27 PM, Brian Mathis wrote:

You are enjoying a side-effect of NAT by thinking it is a firewall.

The other nice side-effect of NAT is that you get an effectively infinite number of addresses behind it without any pre-arrangement with anyone else. Even if ISPs hand out what they expect to reasonably-sized blocks, won't it be much harder to deal with when you outgrow your allotment? We've had the opportunity to move to ipv6 for ages but we haven't (in the US, anyway). I think the reason is that most people like the way NAT works and don't really want a public address on every device.