From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262406AbUH0KCa (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Aug 2004 06:02:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262418AbUH0KCa (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Aug 2004 06:02:30 -0400 Received: from hostmaster.org ([212.186.110.32]:49813 "HELO hostmaster.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262406AbUH0KCZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Aug 2004 06:02:25 -0400 Subject: Re: netfilter IPv6 support From: Thomas Zehetbauer To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org In-Reply-To: <20040826211107.GA30080@havoc.gtf.org> References: <1093546367.3497.23.camel@hostmaster.org> <412E4740.3090807@pobox.com> <20040826140637.336c4d10.davem@redhat.com> <20040826211107.GA30080@havoc.gtf.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-OyOPXd39pAtT79KBG4yg" Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 12:02:24 +0200 Message-Id: <1093600944.3497.51.camel@hostmaster.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 1.5.93 (1.5.93-2) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-OyOPXd39pAtT79KBG4yg Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Don, 2004-08-26 at 17:11 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > For example, a NAT box behind which 32,000 hosts sit, or something like > that :) NAT is limited to count(official addresses)*65535 connections anyway. One of the most important features of IPv6 is to reconcile today's interNAT to a homogenous internet as it was before and intended to be. If someone wants then to put 32k hosts behind a single linux router he would better provide the necessary hardware for it. Tom --=20 T h o m a s Z e h e t b a u e r ( TZ251 ) PGP encrypted mail preferred - KeyID 96FFCB89 finger thomasz@hostmaster.org for key Sacrilegia minuta puniuntur, magna in triumphis feruntur - Seneca --=-OyOPXd39pAtT79KBG4yg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUAQS8Gr2D1OYqW/8uJAQKtmQf9HuvhfaSv21QuqvqTE2C1fzBX0MxeaUWs y2Dlf2FJB6D0gooxDElcjnL5TvSb3t024YbLzoOOkiBqQSWK5H6zDlleObOrulw6 Q4HfcIpLncK3P6p73CylO9ny6rHUWkOWVoVO/gtWg8vRhfcIHNtcfQ5c3OaOathu 5BeX9zGjGhCV/WtF0fDaon7kk8VHX2/uU7+0e/76nD58MpsD+/BR1BsSnjKuFio2 ipHrhIX1C64dnREKsypDToGUdFJ3Edb7CJCz/wBLgrAqDA+58nYGRm3BTv1PCBYH 4NiO3u/brIesZNHS7fdE8fFBOp4HWDTTIzzK/OtbQppo8YjlBKmvSQ== =6a0d -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-OyOPXd39pAtT79KBG4yg--