Where NAT disenfranchises the end-user ...
Roeland Meyer
rmeyer at mhsc.com
Fri Sep 7 01:18:52 UTC 2001
|> From: David Howe [mailto:DaveHowe at gmx.co.uk]
|> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 5:54 PM
|>
|> > Or more completely, they expect the network to be
|> > transparent so that every port at the destination IP
|> > address connects to the same machine, and there
|> > is no operational restriction on which end initiates
|> > the communication.
Absolutely true. I'll take that clarification.
|> which of course *is* possible for at least one machine per visible IP
|> address - even if additional IPs are masqed behind it.
if you are doing one:one NAT then why do NAT at all?
if you are doing one:many then it won't work (broken).
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