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by Veserv 54 days ago
I engineer and design network device drivers and network protocol stacks.

NAT is a terrible network protocol. The correct protocol would have been a DHCP extension giving you a 49-bit address where your IPv4 address constitutes a /32 with a 17-bit unique local address.

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Fascinating. Would love to know more if you have a link.