v6 & DSL / Cable modems [was: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space (IPv6-MW)]

Mohacsi Janos mohacsi at niif.hu
Mon Feb 9 11:39:33 UTC 2009




On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, Andy Davidson wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 07:19:37PM -0500, Robert D. Scott wrote:
>> Wii should not even consider developing " a cool new protocol for the Wii"
>> that is not NAT compliant via V4 or V6. And if they do, we should elect a
>> NANOG regular to go "POSTAL" and handle the problem. The solution to many of
>> these networking conundrums should rest with the application people, and NOT
>> the network people.
>
> You are wrong, there are lots of new ... and not so new ... protocols that
> *can* work via ALGs or other NAT traversal systems, but tend to work worse
> than if they'd had end to end visibility.  The various VoIP protocols are
> the perfect example.


Example please!
Kind Regards,
 		Janos Mohacsi>




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