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And we’re still stuck on IPv4. Going to IPv6 would do a lot more than 1Gbps connections would.
And what do you think it would do for you?
Sorry to be the one to mention, but NAT is here to stay. Even if IPv6 has enough address space for everything to have a public address it’s still good security measure to have local area network that has a firewalled exit node. Especially considering how IoT has become popular and just how little people care about security of same devices.
No, stop this. NAT is not a security measure. It was not designed as one, and does not help security at all.
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Because hiding addresses does very little. A gateway firewall does not need NAT to protect devices behind it.
In fact, NAT tends to make things more complicated, and complication is the enemy of security. It’s one extra thing that firewalls have to account for. Firewalls behind NAT also don’t know where traffic is originally coming from, meaning they have one less tool at their disposal. This gets even worse with CGNAT, which sometimes has multiple levels of NAT.
Security is a very common objection to getting rid of NAT, and it’s wrong.
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I still consider it important part of the whole package. It’s not a be all end all solution but hiding your private network from outside world is a good first step. In situation you are describing DHCP would have to sit with ISP then, effectively giving them control over what you get to install at your home or limiting bandwidth of certain devices which is a huge issue. Of course you can do traffic shaping with NAT as well, but then whole connection has to be limited and not individual device. While NAT does complicate things a lot, and I mean a lot, it does provide a level of segregation and control which you can’t have otherwise.
So the choice boils down to either run Proxy/Gateway or NAT and latter is far easier for common user since routers come pre-configured. Or worst case scenario provide public IP to everything and mess around with gateway’s firewall to protect each individual device from outside.
Fucking CGNAT…