On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Roeland Meyer wrote:
Hello all,
To be honest, even though I've used NAT myself and have implemented NAT for friends and clients, I would NEVER represent that a NAT'd address has the full connectivity to the Internet that a static address does.
True... neither does a well-firewalled LAN. NAT has it's place, and we have many happy customers that are quite pleased with their NAT'd connections; some simple, some fancy. What irks me more than NAT are crappy protocols like FTP and H.323 that make too many assumptions about how much of my machine I am willing to expose in order to communicate using these protocols. I particularly detest any software that is not content to let the far end figure out the source address of a packet. NAT and firewalls have a way of showing you how poorly designed these protocols are. Charles