From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Florian Weimer Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/19] netfilter: IPv6 NAT Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 09:33:39 +0200 Message-ID: <503B22D3.4020109@redhat.com> References: <1344542943-11588-1-git-send-email-kaber@trash.net> <5038233F.7000202@tomt.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kaber@trash.net, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Andre Tomt Return-path: In-Reply-To: <5038233F.7000202@tomt.net> Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On 08/25/2012 02:58 AM, Andre Tomt wrote: > On 09. aug. 2012 22:08, kaber@trash.net wrote: >> The following patches contain an updated version of IPv6 NAT against >> Linus' current tree. > > Hmmm. Looking in my crystal ball (hi #ipv6!), I predict that if this > lands in mainline - and thus in consumer CPE/routers eventually - many > ISP's will have little incentive to actually implement assigning of > blocks to their consumer users like they "have to" today. I think the brokenness of IPv6 ND is still sufficient incentive to provide the customer with a prefix. Whether this prefix is constant over an extended period of time is a separate question. Even among consumers, preferences vary widely. -- Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team