----- Original Message ----- > From: "Iljitsch van Beijnum" <iljit...@muada.com>
> On 3 feb 2011, at 17:16, Jon Lewis wrote: > > > When someone breaks or shuts off that filter, traffic through the > > NAPT firewall stops working. On the stateful firewall with public > > IPs on both sides, everything works...including the traffic you > > didn't want. > > > People are going to want NAT66...and not providing it may slow down > > IPv6 adoption. > > Hm, if you turn off the NAT66 function, wouldn't the traffic pass > through unhindered, too? > > Or do you propose to make IPv6 home gateways the same way IPv4 home > gateways work, where it's usually not even possible to turn it off? I think the implication includes available 1918-like space to use behind the NAT which is similarly publicly non-routable; *this* is the part we care about -- that those addresses are only accessible *to the edge router*. Cheers, -- jra
