v6 & DSL / Cable modems [was: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space (IPv6-MW)]
Matthew Kaufman
matthew at eeph.com
Fri Feb 6 06:43:38 UTC 2009
Randy Bush wrote:
>> Wii should not even consider developing " a cool new protocol for the Wii"
>> that is not NAT compliant via V4 or V6.
>
> what is "nat compliant?"
>
Quite unfortunately, that has come to mean something. Specifically, TCP
or UDP (and no other IP protocol numbers) and application protocols that
don't depend on their locally-derived host addresses as having any
meaning to anyone else.
Or, in other words, "whatever the NAT maker thought was enough in order
to sell boxes", which mostly means "you can look up addresses in the DNS
and open http and https connections to them, and if you're lucky some of
your gaming and video streaming will work too".
Matthew Kaufman
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