28 Sep
2021
28 Sep
'21
3:02 p.m.
Heh, NAT is not that evil after all. Do you expect that all the home people will get routable public IPs for all they toys inside house?
in ipv6 they can. and it can have consequences, see NATting Else Matters: Evaluating IPv6 Access Control Policies in Residential Networks; Karl Olson, Jack Wampler, Fan Shen, and Nolen Scaife https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-030-72582-2_22.pdf the ietf did not give guidance to cpe vendors to protect toys inside your LAN randy