Most users are not
networking geeks. They like NAT because NAT boxes make what they want
to do so easy.
presumably they don't realize that the NATs are making it hard
to do other things that they might want to do.
I wonder...how many of these folks really want network address
translation, versus those who just want the other things that
NAT boxes often do? (DHCP, firewall, hub, router, all with
really easy setup)
Bingo. Most don't even know what NAT is. They buy a box that does
what they want with easy setup and sometimes never mentions NAT.
(What they want doesn't include DHCP; they mostly don't know what that
is either.)
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Dick St.Peters, stpeters(_at_)NetHeaven(_dot_)com