Layers and abstractions

Posted Mar 22, 2019 23:04 UTC (Fri) by smitty_one_each (subscriber, #28989)
In reply to: Layers and abstractions by perennialmind
Parent article: Layers and abstractions

> That's the bar. Any new routing protocol has to be better than NAT.

(1) My observation is that technology adoption is driven by how much better the new is than the old.

(2) If IPv6 were that much of an improvement over v4, then Egress-Only Ingernet Gateways[1] would make no sense.

(3) Maybe CIDR is "good enough".

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/egress-o...