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No idea what you're doing on a daily basis, but let's grab a not-exactly random example. You and your friends are at your house trying to play an online game of King's Court (it's super checkers!) with some friends in Denmark. For whatever reason the developers decided all clients will use port 12345 to communicate. In ipv4 with NAT, local connections will be possible but only the first one to try to communicate out will ever possibly succeed. You and your friend are thwarted and have to find some NAT-defeating means or just give up on doing 10-jump moves to ruin each other's evenings and have an internet drinking game. With IPv6, all of it works fine.

Most casual users have lived with NAT so long they assume its limitations are natural. But they are not. You can achieve the same result with a firewall or ACLs or whatever on ipv6, but that's a choice and not a limitation.





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