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nulbyte | 1 month ago

Why would CGNAT be deployed as a response to IPv6 on mobile? I don't understand the logic there. CGNAT is deployed due to a shortage of publicly routable IPv4 addresses. IPv6 was introduced due to having much larger publicly routable space.

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AtlasBarfed|1 month ago

Because the internet as a whole is ipv4. The mobiles are IPv6. The ipv4 internet does not care about any server running on any mobile device.

Thus, CG Nat was invented so that IPv6 could talk to IPv4 and get the information from it.

nulbyte|1 month ago

No, NAT64 was invented so v6-only hosts could access v4-only resources. CGNAT was invented so v4 hosts can have a v4 address without having to purchase limited public address space.