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.