NAT is more than just a means to ease IP address space use. The use of a dynamic NAT pool allows the hiding of internal IP topology, thereby increasing security. On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, batz wrote:
On Sat, 2 Sep 2000 smd@clock.org wrote:
:Ask yourself, as an ISP, how much more you are willing to pay your :transit providers for IPv4 + IPv6 transit, and how you are going :to get the money for that and for the deployment/retraining costs. : :Then ask yourself, as an ISP, what benefit you get from IPv6. : :My answers: not a chance, none, and zero, respectively. :
Has there been any studies done on IPv6 as an alternative to NAT?
Besides IPSec, dynamic addressing, authentication and improved security, are there other benefits to deploying IPv6 instead of NAT?
-- batz Chief Reverse Engineer Superficial Intelligence Research Defective Technologies