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Re: Where NAT disenfranchises the end-user ...
From: Charles Sprickman <spork () inch com>
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 00:16:06 -0400 (EDT)
On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Roeland Meyer wrote:
Hello all, To be honest, even though I've used NAT myself and have implemented NAT for friends and clients, I would NEVER represent that a NAT'd address has the full connectivity to the Internet that a static address does.
True... neither does a well-firewalled LAN. NAT has it's place, and we have many happy customers that are quite pleased with their NAT'd connections; some simple, some fancy. What irks me more than NAT are crappy protocols like FTP and H.323 that make too many assumptions about how much of my machine I am willing to expose in order to communicate using these protocols. I particularly detest any software that is not content to let the far end figure out the source address of a packet. NAT and firewalls have a way of showing you how poorly designed these protocols are. Charles
Current thread:
- Where NAT disenfranchises the end-user ... Roeland Meyer (Sep 06)
- Re: Where NAT disenfranchises the end-user ... Doug Clements (Sep 06)
- Re: Where NAT disenfranchises the end-user ... Bob K (Sep 06)
- Re[2]: Where NAT disenfranchises the end-user ... Richard Welty (Sep 06)
- Re: Where NAT disenfranchises the end-user ... Bob K (Sep 06)
- Re: Where NAT disenfranchises the end-user ... Charles Sprickman (Sep 06)
- Re: Where NAT disenfranchises the end-user ... Eric A. Hall (Sep 06)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Where NAT disenfranchises the end-user ... Roeland Meyer (Sep 06)
- RE: Where NAT disenfranchises the end-user ... Tony Hain (Sep 06)
- Re: Where NAT disenfranchises the end-user ... David Howe (Sep 06)
- RE: Where NAT disenfranchises the end-user ... Jim Shankland (Sep 06)
- Re: Where NAT disenfranchises the end-user ... Eric A. Hall (Sep 06)
- RE: Where NAT disenfranchises the end-user ... Mike Batchelor (Sep 07)
- RE: Where NAT disenfranchises the end-user ... Brian Whalen (Sep 09)
- Re: Where NAT disenfranchises the end-user ... Christian Kuhtz (Sep 09)
- RE: Where NAT disenfranchises the end-user ... Tony Hain (Sep 06)
- Re: Where NAT disenfranchises the end-user ... Doug Clements (Sep 06)