Such a product is available already, check out :
www.maxgate.net/product_3200.htm
I believe the device does use NAT ( :-< ) but there are other devices in the
family, that do IPSEC. I am still waiting for mine to be delivered, sorry if I
am a little wooly about it, I haven't had chance to play with it yet, but it
looks promising.
At the moment the cost is about $300 USD, but as Andre points out the price will
drop eventually. Also I had believed that IPv6 had enough addresses for every
person on planet Earth and then some.
But here is an intresting question,
Would the address be assigned to a person or a property, on the basis that if
the person moved would the address go with them or stay with the house ?
What happened if the house was destroyed or the person died, would the address
be returned to the registry, from where it was issued, to be re-allocated to a
new property or person ?
Will we eventually get to the point where we are all as unique as our IPv6
addresses, and new born children are assigned an address automatically, when
they are born ?
Maybe george orwell and aldous huxley got it right ;->
Jim
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This is my personal opinion only and does not represent the technical direction
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Andre-John Mas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 03/08/2000 15:41:52
Sent by: Andre-John Mas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Rakers, Jason" <jrakers @ALLEGHENYENERGY.COM>
cc: "'Dennis Glatting'" <dennis.glatting @SOFTWARE-MUNITIONS.COM>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Stephenson-Dunn/C/HQ/3Com)
Subject: Re: Addresses and ports and taxes -- oh my!
"Rakers, Jason" wrote:
>
> When household appliances begin becoming IP addressable, I think we will see
> a move towards assigning an Internet IP address per household (much like
> today's street address). The household will perform NAT for all devices
> within (one street address can house many people, not just one).
The factor in all this is cheap firewalls/routers. With these coming
down in price they will be installed standard when asking for a cable
internet connection, or such. Also these boxes, probably being the size
of a phoneset would probably also include a DHCP server for addressing
the
various devices in the home, much like what is done for Sun's SunRay
line
of devices. If this does happen I just hope that they offer the option
for expert users to configure the devices themselves. The price factor
that will make these an option is arounf USD 100.
Andre
