On Sun, 24 Jun 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

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> On Jun 24 2007 15:08, Kyle Moffett wrote:
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>> 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.
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> 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
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