It’s mindblowing how the NAT concept has been burned into the minds of an entire generation of network engineers.
Or really just IP address exhaustion in general. Many ISPs and other cloud service providers still think that they are being wasteful by delegating “way too many IPv6 addresses” when we have 2^128 addresses to work with.
People seem to have forgotten that NAT is a dirty hack that aims to postpone the exhaustion of IPv4 address space. People also don’t seem to realize how huge the IPv6 address space is.
It’s mindblowing how the NAT concept has been burned into the minds of an entire generation of network engineers.
Or really just IP address exhaustion in general. Many ISPs and other cloud service providers still think that they are being wasteful by delegating “way too many IPv6 addresses” when we have 2^128 addresses to work with.
People seem to have forgotten that NAT is a dirty hack that aims to postpone the exhaustion of IPv4 address space. People also don’t seem to realize how huge the IPv6 address space is.