On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 06:29:42AM -0800, Owen DeLong wrote:
Ridiculous… TCP/IP was designed to be a peer to peer system where each endpoint was uniquely addressable whether reachable by policy or not.
I think that is a dramatic over-simplification of the IP design criteria -- as it was already met by NCP or even a single ethernet segment. But that's an aside. I recommend that you read rfc1918, with a particular focus on Section 2, because I'm about to employ its language: When dealing at large scale, an incompetent network engineer sees a network under their control as a single enterprise. Whereas a competent network engineer recognizes that they are actually operating a federation of enterprises. They identify the seams, design an architecture which exploits them, and allocate their scarce resources appropriately.
IPv6 restores that ability and RFC-1918 is a bandaid for an obsolete protocol.
So, in your mind, IPv4 was "obsolete" in 1996 -- almost three years before IPv6 was even specified? Fascinating. I could be in no way mistaken for an IPv4/NAT apologist, but that one's new on me.
Stop making excuses and let's fix the network
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