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03:07:01 on Wed, 17 Jun 2009, Boltar remarked:
>On Jun 17, 10:14 am, "Mortimer" wrote:
>> Oh, doesn't it work in the same way as IPv4, in that all PCs on a network
>> send packets that just quote the router's public IP address. Does the
>> concept of NAT not work in the same way for IPv6?
>
>IP6 doesn't need NAT. NAT is only used because of the shortage of IP4
>addresses. And yes , all PCs do send packets with a public IP
>address , but the point is with IP4 that address changes
Only if the ISP has failed to give the user a static (or fixed -
dynamically assigning the same each time) IP address.
>and its impossible to identify which actual machine they came from -
>the best you could do with home broadband would be the house itself.
Only restricted in that case because of NAT.
> With IP6 you can identify the actual machine - and that goes for when
>you're supposedly using "anonymous" public wifi.
What makes you think your ipv6 address is portable between ISPs like
that?
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