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Symbioteyesterday at 6:32 PM2 repliesview on HN

This assumes the ISP allocates a public IPv4 address.

In many countries they don't have enough, so you have CGNAT.


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mort96yesterday at 6:45 PM

That's a fair point. In my mind, residential ISPs give out public IP addresses and CGNAT is just for cell phones. But I recognize that the philosophy of, "we don't need to solve IP address exhaustion, we just need to keep people able to access Facebook" leads to CGNAT or multi level NAT.

Still, I do think that the solution of, "one IPv4 address per household + NAT" is a perfectly good system. I view the IPv6 mentality of giving each computer in the world a globally unique IPv6 address as a non-goal.

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