Functionality needed in NATs (Re: [midcom] WG scope/deliverables)

[Harald Alvestrand]

At 16:36 15/02/2001 -0800, Bernard D. Aboba wrote:
>Today, NAT penetration among consumers isn't very high because networked
>multi-PC homes are relatively rare. However, as multiple device homes
>proliferate along with home networking, I would expect the majority of
>consumer PCs to be behind NATs by 2005. Unless we start thinking now
>about the minimal NAT functionality necessary to deploy IPv6, and get
>this into shipping  NATs soon, we will face very substantial barriers to
>IPv6 adoption down the road.

I think (as far as I can think :-) that the minimum functionality needed to 
deploy (say) 6to4 behind a NAT is the ability to configure it to pass all 
packets carrying 6to4 traffic to a separate box.

Other scenarios have other requirements.

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