[Novalug] IPV6 Questions
Mackenzie Morgan
macoafi at gmail.com
Tue Jul 22 15:41:06 EDT 2008
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Mackenzie Morgan <macoafi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 3:37 PM, greg pryzby <greg at pryzby.org> wrote:
>> I had no idea that 'getting rid of NAT' was a goal of IPV6. Since you
>> make that claim, can you send me a link (from the standards group
>> preferably).
>
> Well NAT only existed as hack to delay running out of IPv4 IPs until
> such time as we could switch over to IPv6.
Also, I'm pretty sure work began on designing IPv6 before NAT was created.
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