Re: misunderstanding scale

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

On Mar 22, 2014, at 3:49 PM, Nick Hilliard <nick () foobar org> wrote:

> On 22/03/2014 19:35, Justin M. Streiner wrote:
> > CGN also comes with lots of downside that customers are likely to find
> > unpleasant.  For some operators, customer (dis)satisfaction might be the
> > driver that ultimately forces them to deploy IPv6.
>
> don't believe for a moment that v6 to v4 protocol translation is any less
> ugly than CGN.
>
> Nick

Well, IMHO, it’s slightly less ugly.

CGN will usually be a second layer of NAT imposed on an already NAT’d connection.

At least with NAT64, you’re usually dealing with a single layer of translation.

Owen