I find it amazing (well, probably not so amazing)
that we are re-hashing this every few years.
It looks like NAT's are a fact of life, and we
just need to figure out how to deal with them.
- paul
At 07:59 PM 12/15/2000 -0500, Scott Bradner wrote:
I will admit to some level of confusion
the subject line of this thread is "NATs *ARE* evil!" yet most of the
discussion is about the use of private addresses - something that
a whole lot of firewalls also do - howcum the subject line is
not "NATs & Firewalls are evil!" or "use of private addresses is evil!"?
this focus on NATs seems to be an incomplete statement of the problem