On 2-okt-2007, at 15:05, Adrian Chadd wrote:
Please explain how you plan on getting rid of those protocol-aware
plugins
when IPv6 is widely deployed in environments with -stateful
firewalls-.
You just open up a hole in the firewall where appropriate.
You can have an ALG, the application or the OS do this. As you
probably know by now, I don't favor the ALG approach.
End-to-end-ness is and has been "busted" in the corporate world AFAICT
for a number of years. IPv6 "people" seem to think that simply
providing
globally unique addressing to all endpoints will remove NAT and all
associated trouble. Guess what - it probably won't.
If you don't want end-to-end, be a man (or woman) and use a proxy.
Don't tell the applications they they are connected to the rest of
the world and then pull the rug from under them. This works in IPv4
today but don't expect this to carry over to IPv6. At least not
without a long, bloody fight.
