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manigandham
3487 days ago
NAT was created to solve the ip space shortage, which ipv6 doesnt have. There's no point in ipv6 NAT.
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sigjuice
3487 days ago
Tell that to the people who want NAT for "security".
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pilif
3487 days ago
NAT gives the same amount of security as dropping all SYN packets at the firewall level. The latter just requires much fewer resources to do as it allows for completely stateless operation.
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openasocket
3487 days ago
> NAT gives the same amount of security as dropping all SYN packets at the firewall level
What about UDP packets?
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