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|    Dmitry Protasoff to Victor Sudakov    |
|    Two ISPs and backup for a home network (    |
|    01 Jul 21 16:46:56    |
      REPLY: 2:5005/49 60ddc5c0       MSGID: 2:5001/100.1 60ddc92c       CHRS: CP866 2       TZUTC: 0300       TID: hpt/w64-mvcdll 1.9.0-cur 2020-04-15       Hello, Victor!              Thursday July 01 2021 20:31, you wrote to me:               VS> The original IPv4 was also miserable with its classful networks, RIPv1        VS> etc. I still cannot imagine however what "real life" problem they are        VS> solving by creating NAT for ipv6.              For example - rerouting traffic via VPN to get thru RKN's DPI.       Real life scenario :)               DP>> translation. It's much more lightweight and easy to implement.               VS> Either you translate only the higher 64 bits of the address, or the        VS> whole 128 bits of the address, you still rewrite the packet. True, you        VS> don't do PAT, that's why I said that it looks like a one-to-one IPv4        VS> NAT (much like in AWS VPC "public" subnets).              Yeah, but you can have "host" part the same for several uplinks and change       prefix only on NPTv6 gateway.       It's the best ipv6 can offer for you, sorry.               VS> Nope, but I think $subj can be implemented today, e.g. via some field        VS> in RAs etc. In FreeBSD (and I'm sure in other IPv6 implementations)        VS> you can select the prerred source address, you only have to add some        VS> way to change it automatically when a "dead gateway" is detected.              It adds more complexity and cannot be implemented easily in userland across       multiple OSes.                     Best regards,        dp.       --- GoldED+/W64-MSVC 1.1.5-b20180707        * Origin: No rest for the wicked (2:5001/100.1)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 30/0 50/109 80/1 90/1 105/81 120/340 123/131 154/10       SEEN-BY: 221/1 6 226/30 227/702 229/424 426 550 700 1016 240/1120       SEEN-BY: 240/5832 249/206 317 400 261/38 280/464 5555 282/464 1038       SEEN-BY: 301/0 1 101 113 812 317/3 322/757 342/200 460/58 463/68 467/239       SEEN-BY: 467/888 633/280 712/848 920/1 5000/111 5001/3 100 5005/49       SEEN-BY: 5015/46 5020/715 830 846 1042 2047 2140 4441 5053/54 5058/104       SEEN-BY: 5064/56 5083/1 444       PATH: 5001/100 5020/1042 301/1 229/426           |
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