ipv6 addressing - non-routable equivalents?

Brian E Carpenter brian@hursley.ibm.com
Fri, 06 Oct 2000 09:16:50 -0500


Antonio Querubin wrote:
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> Uh, so one more time, how does the global uniqueness property of an IPv6
> address provide this capability that a globally unique IPv4 address can't?

IPv4 addresses aren't globally unique these days - we lost that
with NAT. The intent is for IPv6 to restore the uniqueness property,
not to create some magic new property.

  Brian