Fwd: SlashDot: "Comcast Gunning for NAT Users"

Fri Feb 1 16:17:56 UTC 2002

On Fri, 01 Feb 2002 10:38:24 EST, David Charlap <David.Charlap at marconi.com>  said:

> Here's their out against NATs.  They are prohibiting use "as an
> end-point of a non-compast local area network".

Ahh... but the box doing the NAT isn't an end-point, it's a router. ;)

And if they want to argue "but it's also an endpoint for a LAN", they'll
have to figure out how that's any different than a USB or FireWire setup
(after all, those *are* networks too, if you think about it....)

RFC2734 IPv4 over IEEE 1394. P. Johansson. December 1999. (Format:
     TXT=69314 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)

Slippery slope there.....
-- 
				Valdis Kletnieks
				Computer Systems Senior Engineer
				Virginia Tech

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