Re: (ASCEND) IPv6 question ?

[Phillip Vandry <vandry@Mlink.NET>]

> :IPv6 requires an overhaul of the whole Internet before advantages can be
> :drawn from it. NAT does not.
> 
> Well i dont see that it is too much work from nat as long as a router could
> talk v4 and v6 at the same time.  Nat doesnt work with everything
> unfortunately. It COULD be made to work with everything. It really depends
> on the daemons and firewalls at the server side. For example, try accessing
> mapquest thru a natted host.

My point is that your router will indeed be IPv4 IPv6 bilingual for the
entire time of the transition period. And the transition period would
last until the whole Internet was capable of speaking IPv6 and the IPv6
over IPv4 tunnels had been replaced with real IPv6 links. That's a very
long transition, and in the meantime you're still talking IPv4 most of
the time, so you haven't solved any problems (most notably the address
crunch).

I agree that NAT does not work with all apps, but then again even fewer
apps are IPv6 ready. And NAT does solve the address crunch *AND* the
problem of having to renumber when you change ISPs.

-Phil
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