Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: netfilter IPv6 support | From | Thomas Zehetbauer <> | Date | Fri, 27 Aug 2004 12:02:24 +0200 |
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On Don, 2004-08-26 at 17:11 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > For example, a NAT box behind which 32,000 hosts sit, or something like > that :)
NAT is limited to count(official addresses)*65535 connections anyway.
One of the most important features of IPv6 is to reconcile today's interNAT to a homogenous internet as it was before and intended to be. If someone wants then to put 32k hosts behind a single linux router he would better provide the necessary hardware for it.
Tom
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