On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 06:29:42AM -0800, Owen DeLong wrote: > Ridiculous… TCP/IP was designed to be a peer to peer system where each > endpoint was uniquely > addressable whether reachable by policy or not.
I think that is a dramatic over-simplification of the IP design criteria -- as it was already met by NCP or even a single ethernet segment. But that's an aside. I recommend that you read rfc1918, with a particular focus on Section 2, because I'm about to employ its language: When dealing at large scale, an incompetent network engineer sees a network under their control as a single enterprise. Whereas a competent network engineer recognizes that they are actually operating a federation of enterprises. They identify the seams, design an architecture which exploits them, and allocate their scarce resources appropriately. > IPv6 restores that ability and RFC-1918 is a bandaid for an obsolete protocol. So, in your mind, IPv4 was "obsolete" in 1996 -- almost three years before IPv6 was even specified? Fascinating. I could be in no way mistaken for an IPv4/NAT apologist, but that one's new on me. > Stop making excuses and let's fix the network If you want to "fix the network," tolerate neither incompetence or sloth from its operators. Educate the former. Encourage the latter. -- . ___ ___ . . ___ . \ / |\ |\ \ . _\_ /__ |-\ |-\ \__