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Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6
- Subject: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6
- From: eric-list at truenet.com (Eric Tykwinski)
- Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 19:44:40 -0500
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I'll agree there, as developers have built in some tricks to work around NAT issues. But in reality doing away with NAT is a much better alternative for the long haul. So you are both right, but I'll side with Owen when doing network deployments as to ease my future headaches.
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On Jan 17, 2013, at 7:30 PM, Jeff Kell <jeff-kell at utc.edu> wrote:
> On 1/17/2013 6:50 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
>> Vonage will, in most cases fail through CGN as will Skype, Xbox-360,
>> and many of the other IM clients.
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> Not sure about Vonage, but Skype, Xbox, and just about everything else
> imaginable (other than hosting a server) works just fine over NAT with
> default-deny inbound here, and we have several thousand students in the
> dorms that bang the heck out of those services. Most applications have
> adapted to the SOHO NATing router that is prevalent today on broadband
> internet. And if it didn't work, believe me, I'd hear about it :)
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> Jeff
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