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Re: quietly....
From: david raistrick <drais () icantclick org>
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 17:03:51 -0500 (EST)
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.
-- david raistrick http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html drais () icantclick org http://www.expita.com/nomime.html
Current thread:
- Re: quietly...., (continued)
- Re: quietly.... Adrian Chadd (Feb 01)
- Re: quietly.... Marshall Eubanks (Feb 01)
- Re: quietly.... Jack Bates (Feb 01)
- Re: quietly.... Iljitsch van Beijnum (Feb 01)
- Re: quietly.... Dave Israel (Feb 01)
- Re: quietly.... Randy Carpenter (Feb 01)
- Re: quietly.... Dave Israel (Feb 01)
- Re: quietly.... david raistrick (Feb 01)
- Re: quietly.... Owen DeLong (Feb 01)
- Re: quietly.... Paul Graydon (Feb 01)
- Re: quietly.... david raistrick (Feb 01)
- Re: quietly.... Iljitsch van Beijnum (Feb 01)
- Re: quietly.... Benson Schliesser (Feb 01)
- Re: quietly.... Owen DeLong (Feb 01)
- Re: quietly.... John Payne (Feb 01)
- Re: quietly.... Owen DeLong (Feb 01)
- Re: quietly.... John Payne (Feb 02)
- Re: quietly.... Roland Perry (Feb 02)
- Re: quietly.... Owen DeLong (Feb 02)
- Re: quietly.... Roland Perry (Feb 03)
- Re: quietly.... Mark Andrews (Feb 03)