On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 13:38 -0800, Owen DeLong wrote:
NAT solves exactly one problem. It provides a way to reduce address consumption to work around a shortage of addresses.
Devil's advocate hat on: NAT (in its most common form) also permits internal addressing to be independent of external addressing. The side effects of that are not necessarily desirable (loss of end-to-end connectivity, performance issues, limitations on simultaneous connections etc etc). It seems to me that it is this property of NAT that people are most loath to lose. And why ULA looks tantalisingly delicious. Regards, K. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Karl Auer (kauer@biplane.com.au) +61-2-64957160 (h) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer/ +61-428-957160 (mob) GPG fingerprint: DA41 51B1 1481 16E1 F7E2 B2E9 3007 14ED 5736 F687 Old fingerprint: B386 7819 B227 2961 8301 C5A9 2EBC 754B CD97 0156