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Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 13:44:29 -0700 (PDT) From: david@...g.hm To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de> cc: Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@....com>, djones@...sove.com, LKML Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Scaling Max IP address limitation On Sun, 24 Jun 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Jun 24 2007 15:08, Kyle Moffett wrote: >> >> Do you really need that many IP addresses? When somebody finally gets >> around to implementing REDIRECT support for ip6tables then you could >> just redirect them all to the same port on the local system. > > The way I see it, it's: "if someone gets around to implement *IPv6 NAT*" > (which, if its designers were asked, is contrary to the idea of ipv6). true, but back in the real world it's sometimes desriable to hid _chich_ specific machine somethign comes from. so I expect that implementation of NAT is going tohappen at some point before it's widely deployed. David Lang - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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