top | item 15956965 (no title) unexistance | 8 years ago so, that means going with IPv6 will bring back p2p networking? or do you see it's already too late?p/s: it's more than relevant, it's eerily accurate in predicting our current situation discuss order hn newest jacquesm|8 years ago > so, that means going with IPv6 will bring back p2p networking?It just might, but Cisco, Juniper and other vendors are already implementing NAT on IPv6.https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/junos/topics/con...https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/ip/network-addres...So what you'll see is IPv6 on the web with the LAN stuck on IPv4 because too many dumb devices don't do IPv6 and IPv4 is enough for local traffic.That alleviates the need for more addresses on the net while keeping things roughly the same locally.
jacquesm|8 years ago > so, that means going with IPv6 will bring back p2p networking?It just might, but Cisco, Juniper and other vendors are already implementing NAT on IPv6.https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/junos/topics/con...https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/ip/network-addres...So what you'll see is IPv6 on the web with the LAN stuck on IPv4 because too many dumb devices don't do IPv6 and IPv4 is enough for local traffic.That alleviates the need for more addresses on the net while keeping things roughly the same locally.
jacquesm|8 years ago
It just might, but Cisco, Juniper and other vendors are already implementing NAT on IPv6.
https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/junos/topics/con...
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/ip/network-addres...
So what you'll see is IPv6 on the web with the LAN stuck on IPv4 because too many dumb devices don't do IPv6 and IPv4 is enough for local traffic.
That alleviates the need for more addresses on the net while keeping things roughly the same locally.