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hdgvhicv07/31/20253 repliesview on HN

Nat is massively useful for all sorts of reasons which has nothing to do with ip limitations.


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beeflet07/31/2025

sounds great but it fucks up P2P in residential connections, where it is mostly used due to ipv4 address conservation. You can still have nat in IPv6 but hopefully I won't have to deal with it

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paulddraper07/31/2025

The NAT RPC talks purely about IP exhaustion.

What do you have in mind.

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unethical_ban07/31/2025

Rather, NAT is a bandage for all sorts of reasons besides IP exhaustion.

Example: Janky way to get return routing for traffic when you don't control enterprise routes.

Source: FW engineer

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