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After staunch resistance, NAT may come to IPv6 after all
Posted by: Jordi on Sunday, July 27, 2008 - 08:48 PM
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Problem: the Internet is running out of addresses. Clean solution: create more addresses by increasing the address length from 32 to 128 bits. Messy solution: have multiple systems share a single 32-bit address through Network Address Translation (NAT).
Complete article at ars technica.