### On Thu, 2 May 2002 10:42:01 +0200, "Daniska Tomas" <tomas@tronet.com> ### casually decided to expound upon <nanog@merit.edu> the following ### thoughts about "RE: Large ISPs doing NAT? ": DT> and what if one of the devices behind that phone would also be a personal DT> "ip gateway router" (or how you call that)... you could recursively iterate DT> as deep as your mail size allows you to... It's possible. Could it get ugly? Yes. Do we just want to shut our eyes and say "let's not go there."... well... maybe. I just don't think the solution is to say, "this can never happen... we must limit all handheld devices to sitting behind a NAT gateway." DT> hope this thread will not end in a router behind a router that serves as a DT> router seving as a router to another router which has some other routers DT> connected... God forbid! We might have a network on our hands! -- /*===================[ Jake Khuon <khuon@NEEBU.Net> ]======================+ | Packet Plumber, Network Engineers /| / [~ [~ |) | | --------------- | | for Effective Bandwidth Utilisation / |/ [_ [_ |) |_| N E T W O R K S | +=========================================================================*/