
9 Feb
2009
9 Feb
'09
12:39 p.m.
On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, Andy Davidson wrote:
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 07:19:37PM -0500, Robert D. Scott wrote:
Wii should not even consider developing " a cool new protocol for the Wii" that is not NAT compliant via V4 or V6. And if they do, we should elect a NANOG regular to go "POSTAL" and handle the problem. The solution to many of these networking conundrums should rest with the application people, and NOT the network people.
You are wrong, there are lots of new ... and not so new ... protocols that *can* work via ALGs or other NAT traversal systems, but tend to work worse than if they'd had end to end visibility. The various VoIP protocols are the perfect example.
Example please! Kind Regards, Janos Mohacsi>