Re: myth of the great transition (was US Defense Department forma lly ad

On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 13:47:35 +0530, manojd 
<manojd(_at_)geometricsoftware(_dot_)com>  said:
> Since the issue is stable end-points, could something like this be a patch
> for v4 NATs?
No.

> c) Externally visible port number used by an application on some device is
> composed of its stable 8-bit number known to NAT, plus 8-bit port number it
> locally allocates.
As you note below, this totally breaks the idea of "well known ports".

> Device & app config is more complex. And the idea of "well known port
> numbers" for certain protocols goes for a toss. But at least the apps work.
Hmm... 21, 23, 25, 80, etc etc etc.  This is even worse than the usual
"you have to pick exactly one destination machine and hand-tunnel it to
the server" solution.

I suppose if you had absolutely NO intent to have inbound connections,
you could make it work.

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