Re: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd)

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 15:10:18 GMT, Dave Howe <DaveHowe () gmx co uk>  said:
>                   but sucks if your cable or xDSL ISP decides NAT is the
> way to go. (usually followed by a "well, you shouldn't need two or more
> nodes there/want to run a server/care about SIP, a business should pay for
> a DEDICATED link" for a little three-man sales office in the backend of
> nowhere)

Or the road warrior case.  If you send 3 engineers to Detroit and they end up
at the wrong hotel.....

> But regardless, all the workarounds are doing is trying to patch the fact
> that UDP dependent connections are not NAT friendly by special-casing (or
> app-layer proxying) particular instances of UDP in a way that doesn't drop
> dead TOO often....

People are continually managing to make bears dance, and are surprised when
said bears decide it's time to voice their opinions on the matter....

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