the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?
John R. Levine
johnl at iecc.com
Tue Apr 27 18:09:40 UTC 2010
>>> Did you use Yahoo IM, AIM, or Skype?
>> Yes, yes, and yes. Works fine.
>
> What about every other service/protocol that users use today,
> and might be invented tomorrow ? Do & will they all work with
> NAT ?
Some do, some don't. My observation is that in practice the stuff that
people do on consumer DSL works through NAT a lot better than the nanog
conventional wisdom says it does.
> Will it stop or hamper the innovation of new services on the
> internet ?
Like peer to peer phish bots? I certainly hope so.
R's,
John
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