[Info-vax] implementing IPv6 on the internet

[Scott Dorsey]

Jan-Erik Soderholm  <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
>
>Some routers can port forward to another port, some always
>port forward using the same port number. In the later case
>you have to have alternate ports on some servers if they
>have the same service. Like alternates to 80 for web servers.

Yes, this is the sort of horrible crap that I was referring to when
I mentioned "cheez-whiz workarounds."

>But all this discussion about servers behind NAT'et networks
>probably is about 1 NAT'ed network out of 10.000. Most users
>simply "surf the net" and read their mail and are happy. :-)
>And they could not care less about IPv6... :-)

There was a time when a lot of major protocols required external
connections.  As NAT has become popular and one-way "internet"
service has become popular, those protocols have generally been
replaced with central-server based systems.  (The transformation
of Skype over the years is worth looking at.)

So in fact as this has taken place, fewer users have needed to
provide services from their desktop, but that's bad.  For one
thing, it makes for a two-tier internet which kind of defeats
the original idea intended by the founders....
--scott


-- 
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."