On 03/10/2013 05:43 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 10/03/2013 23:07, Michael Mol wrote: >>> All those examples you give are much like a bunch of home machines >>>> sitting behind a NAT gateway onto the internet. That's actually OK >>>> and I reckon that is the intended use of NAT. >> I want to point out that that's only true if the home network has at >> least one public IP. If you've got NAT 4x4, you're kinda screwed. >> >> (Alan will understand that, but for those unfamiliar with it, that >> basically means that if your home router is given an RFC1918 address by >> your ISP, port forwarding isn't going to do squat for you.) > > > I'm getting images of NATted traffic being NATted. My head just exploded. Yup. That's the state of small residential ISPs right now, and why it's so critical to get IPv6 deployed.