Today in our newest take on “older technology is better”: why NAT rules!

  • FiniteBanjo
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    5 months ago

    The problem is we’re projected to run out of unique IPv4 addresses by 2003.

    • orangeboats@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      And we are facing the effects of it as we’re speaking. CGNAT and protocols like TURN were not invented without a reason.

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        And it took a lot of hard work by a lot of people to adopt new date standards to avoid that problem. Now it’s time to adopt new IP standards, and it’s going to take a lot of hard work by a lot of people.