From owner-freebsd-net Fri May 29 19:48:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA01122 for freebsd-net-outgoing; Fri, 29 May 1998 19:48:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (winter@sasami.jurai.net [207.153.65.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA07930 for ; Fri, 29 May 1998 13:50:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA00348; Fri, 29 May 1998 16:49:56 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 16:49:56 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Jun-ichiro itojun Itoh cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ipv6 network addresses In-Reply-To: <11691.896448831@coconut.itojun.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 29 May 1998, Jun-ichiro itojun Itoh wrote: > I believe people would like to get rid of NAT when v6 is deployed, > so there will be no private address, I believe... For the most part your belief would be correct however in a small number of cases I find NAT to be highly useful. I have a number of machines running at home which are not secured and should not be reachable via global addresses. In addition, I keep my Win95/NT/Netware boxes behind the NAT on general principle. /* Matthew N. Dodd | A memory retaining a love you had for life winter@jurai.net | As cruel as it seems nothing ever seems to http://www.jurai.net/~winter | go right - FLA M 3.1:53 */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message