Continental Grade NAT: The Final IPv4 Boss Battle

Continental Grade NAT: The Final IPv4 Boss Battle
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The networking equivalent of "We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas." Instead of adopting IPv6 with its 340 undecillion addresses, let's just cram 200 million people behind one IPv4 address and call it "Continental Grade NAT." That rat's nest of cables is probably the debugging interface. $10M per year to maintain this monstrosity when we could just... use IPv6. But sure, let's keep the IPv4 zombie shuffling along until 2030. Network engineers everywhere just died a little inside.

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