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_mooflast Saturday at 2:55 AM2 repliesview on HN

Enough addresses for what? Nobody needs or even wants all of their devices to have globally routable addresses.


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throw0101alast Saturday at 2:58 PM

> Enough addresses for what? Nobody needs or even wants all of their devices to have globally routable addresses.

They do if they have applications, such as Xbox/PS gaming applications, broken VoIP in gaming lobbies, failure of SIP client to punch through etc. And if an ISP does not have, or cannot afford, to get enough IPv4 to hand each of their customers at least one to assign to the CPE's WAN port, you're now talking about CG-NAT, which a whole other level of breakage.

crotelast Saturday at 3:04 AM

Enough addresses for proper P2P connectivity, which is kinda useful for newfangled things like video chat?

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