On Sunday 27 February 2005 23:35, David S. Miller wrote:

On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 14:10:39 -0600
Quantum Scientific [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

I am skeptical about this assertion that the whole internet needs to be hashed 
if connection tracking.

Connection tracking and NAT broke entirely the end-to-end host
assumption that used to be valid on the internet.

There are many very important optimizations we've had to disable
by default just in TCP alone because of NAT.

I don't think future Internet will be safe enough to open
corporate networks. I definitely won't do it.
NAT firewall in front of my net is an absolute requirement
for me.

However, IPv6 in Internet won't happen tomorrow,
no rush...
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vda