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j_jochem on July 6, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: IPv6 Exhaustion Counter

Because NAT is a hack to cope with IPv4 address space exhaustion. The main benefit of using IPv6 is that it allows you to get rid of NAT.

nickodell on July 6, 2015 [–]

That might be, but it's a hack that works pretty well on a lot of real-world systems.

simoncion on July 7, 2015 | [–]

If you think that, you've not read the details of any NAT traversal schemes that aren't uPnP.

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