301

From the conclusion:

NAT may be a good short term solution to the address depletion and scaling problems. This is because it requires very few changes and can be installed incrementally. NAT has several negative characteristics that make it inappropriate as a long term solution, and may make it inappropriate even as a short term solution. Only implementation and experimentation will determine its appropriateness.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] frezik@midwest.social 2 points 5 months ago

It tried to fix everything wrong with IPv4, like shitty multicasting. This made it extra complicated.

If it had just been 128-bit addresses, it probably would have been widely deployed in the 90s. Don't need to bother at this point, though, just get it done.

this post was submitted on 29 May 2024
301 points (99.0% liked)

Programmer Humor

19463 readers
83 users here now

Welcome to Programmer Humor!

This is a place where you can post jokes, memes, humor, etc. related to programming!

For sharing awful code theres also Programming Horror.

Rules

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS