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IPv4 is great, but nat makes things so hard. This sounds wonderful.


NAT sucks, but so does a lack of affordable L3 switches that can handle IPv6 routing (not that I'll use that against IPv6, but it's a personal pain point of mine).

If I wanted to deploy v6 in my home network I'd literally have to configure my EdgeRouter X on every VLAN in my home network (and as such stuff all IPv6 traffic on my network that crosses subnets into a single 1Gbe connection), since my TP-Link managed switch has no facility to put out a IPv6 RA (even though it supports IPv6 routing, go figure).

I'm really digging the age of vendor silicon where most switches just support whatever Broadcom/etc. put into their chips, but man I hope they catch up with IPv6 soon because right now only the big boys (Cisco/Juniper/HP/Dell/etc.) seem to have any hardware with full IPv6 support, and then you're paying a hefty price for the hardware + support contract (assuming you want software updates).




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