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Re: Breaking Stuff by Fixing NAT


From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 22:26:23 -0500

On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 16:04:07 PST, "Crist J. Clark" <crist.clark () attbi com>  said:

Has anyone here been in a similar situation? Did turning off NAT break
anything? Is anyone aware of or can think of anything that turning off
NAT might break? (Ignore the fact any customers connected during the

If the users have been getting a static address in the 10/8 range, they may
have it hardcoded someplace.  If they've been getting their address/netmask/
DNS/etc via DHCP, then they'd already have discovered it breaks when they
hardcode it since the next time they connect they'll be up a creek.
-- 
                                Valdis Kletnieks
                                Computer Systems Senior Engineer
                                Virginia Tech

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