[85498] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 news
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Figgins)
Wed Oct 12 17:56:32 2005
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 15:56:05 -0600 (MDT)
From: Sean Figgins <sean@labrats.us>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0510121222560.23294@sokol.elan.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, william(at)elan.net wrote:
> addresses. But of those "few" many are those doing P2P sharing
> especially with BitTorent and this application requires open port
> on the user end, so in fact P2P and BT may prove to be the cornerstone
> to getting wider use of IPv6 after we ran out of v4 space...
Both BT and other P2P protocols are perfectly happy behind NAT. There are
a few that seem to prefer that they have a non-natted address, or use some
port forwarding.
Those applications will just need to be fixed if it becomes a common
practive of handing out NAT addresses to customers.
I think the bigger problem would be that of a larger company running out
of RFC 1918 space, for various reasons.
-Sean
