On 28 Apr 2002 at 16:20, Morlock Elloi wrote: > > How exactly does the introduction of IPV6 on a machine that is > > NAT-ted by the ISP who doesn't give shit about IPV6 help the > > situation ?
James A. Donald: > To connect to the IPV6 world from inside a NAT network, you need a > machine that is both inside and outside the NAT network, a gateway > machine that has an IP4 an external address, even if only a dynamic > address. Then all machines on the inside can talk to the outside > through that machine, thus they can all receive quasi static IP6 > addresses, even though not even the gateway machine possesses a static > IP4 address. To clarify, this means that if you have a home network with a gateway computer, you can probably get global static IPV6 addresses for all the machines of your home network, though you might have trouble getting software to use this, or finding people to who can access your computers in IPV6 However, for a corporation, such measures make sense and are useful, because it means they can videoconference within the corporation, and also with other corporations that have adopted the same measure -- video conferencing being the P2P app used by people who are willing to pay money for it.
