Michael writes:
Families are going toward a telephone per person
with caller id and/or distinctive ring to figure
out who should answer. That sure sounds like NAT
to me!
How so? Are they all using the same telephone number?
They would take a phone number per person, but
someone there aren't enough phone numbers available
cheaply enough or a mechanism to communicate
them to the end-node to make this work.
Where is this?
My wife and I possess a total of 5 telephone
numbers (counting mobile and pagers) because the
phone company does not offer the equivalent
of mobileIP.
So how is this anything like NAT? NAT would be one telephone number.
That works for some businesses perhaps. It fails
in most white collar work.
It fails in all businesses, in this century.
Ever try to get ahold of someone *AFTER THE
RECEPTIONIST HAS GONE HOME*?
Ever try to connect to machine B when NAT insists in directing all incoming
connections to a given port on the one and only external IP address to machine
A?