Joris,
Before you post to these groups, it would be a real good idea to read some
of the RFC's and Drafts that have been produced on this topic.
Specifically, you should read
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-iab-nat-implications-09.txt and
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-nat-protocol-complications-04.txt
At 05:27 PM 9/11/00 +0200, Joris Dobbelsteen wrote:
>Maybe an issue for the IPv6 and NAT Workgroups.
>
>NAT was proposed as a temporary solution for the shortage of IP address,
>which is solved with the IPv6 protocol. Currently I don't expect IPv6 to be
>deployed soon (within 1 or 2 years). My ISP, nor many ISPs, aren't promoting
>IPv6 yet, nor Microsoft provides IPv6 support for it's OSes.
>But as finally IPv6 has been deployed world-wide, what will we do with NAT?
>
>A disadvantage of NAT is that some protocols don't work good/correctly
>through NAT. Here NAT broke the principle of the Internet, where every node
>should be able to have bidirectional and end-to-end communication. FTP and
>many games require this to operate correctly.
>
>However, some scenarios where NAT provides THE solution, are for
>* private networks that may not be exposed to the Internet and
>* for networks that have only one IP address available to use on the
>Internet,
>while host on the private network are required to make 'direct' connections
>to the Internet.
>
>I don't think NAT should be made obsolete or unneeded after IPv6 has been
>deployed, but rather to be offered for some purposes on small and home
>networks. Most companies and bussinesses (even small ones) will be able to
>afford a dedicated Internet Connection with a couple IP addresses,
>esspecially after IPv6 has been deployed.
>However I don't expect my ISP to provide me more than one IP address,
>because I don't have a dedicated connection (yet) and I even haven't got one
>static IP address (just DHCP). Also I want to separate 'MY' network from the
>Internet, and don't install more network adapters into computers and lay
>networking cable than needed. This requirement without having to make
>strange configurations to any other computers on the network.
>
>
>That's what's so good about NAT, from my point of view....
>
>
>
>- Joris
>
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