Re: Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

Frankly, when you hear people strongly using the argument stateful firewalling == NAT, you start to wonder if they've ever seen a stateful firewall using public addresses.

I'd hazard a guess that the number of hosts behind NAT gateways is an order of magnitude -- probably two-- greater than the number of hosts behind stateful firewalls using public addresses. It's not that the latter don't exist, it's that economies of scale make the NAT/PAT appliances more widely used and thus more relevant to the discussion. -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com