> On 3 Jul, 2016, at 09:16, David Lang <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> It is generally my hope that ipv6 nat will not be widely deployed.
>> 
>> Firewalls will be stateful instead, and thus there would be no need to
>> access the conntrack information for ipv6 in cake.
> 
> well, conntrack is the way that the firewall handles it's state. Conntrack 
> also has features to let you sync it's state from one system to it's backup 
> so that failover maintains the state.

Yes, but the point is that in a stateful firewall (as opposed to NAT) no 
changes to IP addresses occur while traversing the router.  Cake can therefore 
see the correct addresses without probing conntrack data.

There's still a huge number of people on IPv4 NAT though.

 - Jonathan Morton

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