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Date:      Fri, 29 May 1998 16:49:56 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
To:        Jun-ichiro itojun Itoh <itojun@itojun.org>
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ipv6 network addresses 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980529164610.17992P-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
In-Reply-To: <11691.896448831@coconut.itojun.org>

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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.

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