Why can't they use those apps through NAT? I do it from home quite often. Deepak Jain AiNET On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Shawn McMahon wrote:
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 03:59:16PM -0400, Deepak Jain wrote:
This is not meant at anyone personally, its just something I noticed.
When we are deciding that IP savings, etc are worth it, why not make all Cable/DSL/Dialup providers use NAT to map access logins to a small pool of IPs too?
Because that only works if none of your customers want to access their home boxes from outside in any way, and if none of their applications require a return channel.
Telling your customers they can't telnet, ssh, or VNC into their home boxes costs you all your *nix users, and telling them they can't use Napster costs you all your Windows users.
The few Mac users you have left don't keep you profitable. :-)