On 03/02/10 10:59, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
Well "more addresses" is so many more we can ditch NAT which was a horrible hack in the first place.
NAT is a horrible hack, but does have significant benefits; imagine having an office full of internet-addressable Windows PCs! It may or may not be trivial to configure a firewall (and maybe IPv6 has something to offer here? I know very little about IPv6 as yet) but with IPv4 and NAT it's difficult to give multiple PCs in one office unrestricted bi-direction internet access, and the world would probably we a worse place were that not true!
The only real issue here is once we ditch NAT's (which hopefully will become redundant) you no longer have the same common private address subnets in use everywhere. 192.168.0.whatever isn't in itself particularly memorable except that we are used to seeing it so frequently.
Because most people don't need DNS most people don't have it, but if most people needed it then it would become even more trivial to install (and all routers would have it in the same way they have DHCP now). "Most people" don't know IP addresses now anyway, they access machines on the network by name (\Dave, \Server, or the GUI equivalents). I like knowing IP address now but I don't suffer as a result of not remembering MAC addresses and I don't recall the IP address for (eg) Google.
Anyway, my appetite has been whetted, so where do I start?
At home I have a Virgin cable connection, but at work we are an Enta reseller and I recall reading in the previous thread that this might be a Good Thing as far as IPv6 is concerned?