on 6/18/2003 1:31 PM Eric Rescorla wrote:
What applications that people want to run--and the IT managers would
want to enable--are actually inhibited by NAT? It seems to me that most
of the applications inconvenienced by NAT are ones that IT managers
would want to screen off anyway.
Oracle and H.323 have both been historically problematic, and are both
reasonable applications. Home users also suffer a lot with perfectly
innocent services like games. Ignoring the rifle-shot arguments, requiring
an application to be rebuilt or that a middlebox learn to ~emulate an
active end-point are both miserable choices, and generally unnecessary.
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Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/
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