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> With how ubiquitous gigabit symmetric is becoming, I wonder if you could even do P2P nowadays.

CGNAT is going to make that a hassle.

Ideally any ISP resorting to CGN would be providing IPv6 support, but Tailscale shows that nat hole-punching can work well [1]. I'm not sure if that's feasible to implement in a web browser though.

[1] https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works

It can work okay, but still not perfectly. Before I asked my ISP for a static address, tailscale connections between my place and my partner's only managed to maintain a direct connection half the time. The other half of the time, they required a relay.

yep. I'm still kind of shocked at how little ipv6 has been deployed.

i'm so effing tired of NAT here and NAT there and NATs in between NATs. NAT complicates things for almost no reason now that ipv6 was released almost 30 years ago. Wait, what? 30 years? Now I'm VERY shocked at how little ipv6 has been deployed.

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