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To: Gondring

Yeah—I still don’t understand why NAT isn’t being pushed to increase the number of addresses available.


4 posted on 10/07/2010 7:16:54 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: ShadowAce

Beyond the issues discussed at length, see the penultimate graf. It is a terrible kludge.


5 posted on 10/07/2010 7:27:37 AM PDT by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: ShadowAce
I still don’t understand why NAT isn’t being pushed to increase the number of addresses available.

Because it's a stop-gap measure, not a true solution. The main reason we haven't transitioned to IPv6 yet is that NAT removed the emergency some years ago.

6 posted on 10/07/2010 7:44:20 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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