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Re: HTTP Status 418 I'm a teapot

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as long as they use IPv6.

They won't need to, there's plenty of space in the private range in IPv4 to put everything in my house on the net. IPv6 isn't going to make firewalls and private networks go away, people aren't going to just put everything directly on the Internet with a public IP just because they can just as no one gives every PC on their network now live IP's.

I thought that nobody gives every pc on their network live IPs because we're out of IPs?

Why wouldn't you give everything its own unique IP and then limit access via firewalls? NAT just makes p2p a huge pain.

Re: HTTP Status 418 I'm a teapot

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post #17
post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They won't need to, there's plenty of space in the private range in IPv4 to put everything in my house on the net. IPv6 isn't going to make firewalls and private networks go away, people aren't going to just put everything directly on the Internet with a public IP just because they can just as no one gives every PC on their network now live IP's.

I thought that nobody gives every pc on their network live IPs because we're out of IPs? Why wouldn't you give everything its own unique IP and then limit access via firewalls? NAT just makes p2p a huge pain.

I think that he means that he is putting everything on the private IP range: 192.168.* .* .
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