quietly....
david raistrick
drais at icantclick.org
Tue Feb 1 22:03:51 UTC 2011
On Tue, 1 Feb 2011, Owen DeLong wrote:
> NAT solves exactly one problem. It provides a way to reduce address
> consumption to work around a shortage of addresses.
>
> It does not solve any other problem(s).
Sure it does.
It obfuscates internal addressing.
This wasn't the original goal, but it's a "feature" that some groups of
users have come to require.
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