[arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd)

Wed Oct 29 11:03:11 UTC 2003

No.

Anything that relies on knowing which host it is talking to by looking at
the source address of packets breaks.

Plenty of UDP based apps work over NAT.

Simon

On Wed Oct 29, 2003 at 10:57:35AM -0000, Dave Howe wrote:
> 
> Avleen Vig wrote:
> > If "more IP addresses" is the only motivation for using IPv6, it's
> > really not enough. For environments where direct access to the
> > internet isn't required, NAT serves perfectly well.
> IPSec, SIP/VoIP or almost anything that relies on UDP borks on NAT,
> doesn't it?

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