[154908] in North American Network Operators' Group
NAT66 was Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lee)
Mon Jul 16 21:56:17 2012
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 21:55:40 -0400
From: Lee <ler762@gmail.com>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 7/16/12, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
>
> Why would you want NAT66? ICK!!! One of the best benefits of IPv6 is being
> able to eliminate NAT. NAT was a necessary evil for IPv4 address
> conservation. It has no good use in IPv6.
NAT is good for getting the return traffic to the right firewall. How
else do you deal with multiple firewalls & asymmetric routing?
Yes, it's possible to get traffic back to the right place without NAT.
But is it as easy as just NATing the outbound traffic at the
firewall?
Lee