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LCA: IP address exhaustion and the end of the open net

LCA: IP address exhaustion and the end of the open net

Posted Jan 26, 2011 23:37 UTC (Wed) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: LCA: IP address exhaustion and the end of the open net by foom
Parent article: LCA: IP address exhaustion and the end of the open net

> IPv6 for the home, if we're to have a stateful firewall between all users and the internet, seems basically useless -- it doesn't enable applications like video chat or p2p filesharing to work any easier or more reliably than on IPv4...

If you have more then one person using the same protocol it can make all the difference in the world.


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