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FuriouslyAdrift on Aug 14, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017)

If it can't natively (by creating a new networking stack), then a router would have to re-write the packet.

Endpoint dvices should not be direct peering (security). Always go through either a passthrough inspection device or router.

icedchai on Aug 14, 2023 [–]

Endpoint devices peering directly is how things work on most small networks. What you describe would cause more problems than it solves.

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