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RE: NATs as firewalls

2007-03-07 19:17:48


On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Darryl (Dassa) Lynch wrote:

Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote:
From: John C Klensin [mailto:john-ietf(_at_)jck(_dot_)com]

There is a major difference between a NAT box plugged into
the real Internet and a NAT box plugged into another NAT
box. It is a pretty ugly one for the residential user.

I'm afraid it is already happening on a large scale in some parts.  Here in
Australia I've seen multiple ISP's who NAT all residential customers.  Some
of them amongst the largest players in the market.  Even some commercial
offerings are on NATs.

I've also encountered a local ISP who is using a NAT between their network
and the 'world'. So there is at least one US based ISP who has adopted
this approach.

Dave Morris

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