Melinda Shore <mshore(_at_)cisco(_dot_)com> writes:
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.
Not really. For example, ftp as originally defined doesn't
work through NATs, and no standard VoIP or multimedia
conferencing protocol works through NAT.
None of these things worked real well through firewalls either,
which is sort of my point.
-Ekr
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