On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:29:42 +0200 Thiago Macieira <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thursday 8. July 2010 18.37.54 Bernd Stramm wrote: > > On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:21:24 +0200 > > > > Yves-Alexis Perez <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 08/07/2010 18:18, Bernd Stramm wrote: > > > > Where it does come in is that private users today cannot be > > > > reached by IPv4 unless they go through servers. This is > > > > different with IPv6, at least at the moment. > > > > > > So what you want is something like link-local messaging at a > > > global scale? > > > > Right, I want normal global IP addresses as originally intended. The > > NAT stuff was added later because of lack of IPv4 address space. > > > > This works today if you have IPv6. > > IPv6 will not remove firewalls. People will have unique addresses, > but reachability is not a guarantee. > Right, but it depends on who controls the firewall. Right now that is lumped together with the address translation, done by the ISP. Most people don't know that these are separate issues. When they have a unique address it becomes obvious. But sure, when you control the routing you can always isolate addresses. And then you tell people that they are in jail for their own protection from the evil outside world :) -- Bernd Stramm <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
