[82152] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: mh (RE: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andre Oppermann)
Fri Jul 8 16:03:51 2005
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 21:41:37 +0200
From: Andre Oppermann <nanog-list@nrg4u.com>
To: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Cc: dcrocker@bbiw.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20050707.122708.5898.1241@webmail25.lax.untd.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:
>
> I'd have to counter with "the assumption that NATs are going
> away with v6 is a rather risky assumption." Or perhaps I
> misunderstood your point...
There is one thing often overlooked with regard to NAT. That is,
it has prevented many network based worms for millions of home
users behind NAT devices. Unfortunatly this fact is overlooked
all the time. NAT has its downsides but also upsides sometimes.
--
Andre
