Re: myth of the great transition (was US Defense Department forma lly adopts IPv6)

[Eric Rescorla <ekr at rtfm.com>]

Michael Thomas <mat at cisco.com> writes:

> Eric Rescorla writes:
>  > Michael Thomas <mat at cisco.com> writes:
>  > 
>  > > Eric Rescorla writes:
>  > >  > What applications that people want to run--and the IT managers would
>  > >  > want to enable--are actually inhibited by NAT? It seems to me that
>  > >  > most of the applications inconvenienced by NAT are ones that IT
>  > >  > managers would want to screen off anyway.
>  > > 
>  > > Uh, have you paid no attention to voice? It
>  > > qualifies on both counts. We get complaints from
>  > > customers each and every day... the ones that are
>  > > lucky enough to figure out that NAT is why their
>  > > IP phone doesn't work that is.
>  > 
>  > As I said, these would be screened off by corporate firewalls in most
>  > cases anyway.
> 
> That there are also issues with firewalls is
> entirely beside the point. And firewall traversal
> using a VPN is a trivial and deployed solution to
> the firewall traversal problem.
And you can use similar solutions to traverse NATs, albeit
with slightly similar technology.

-Ekr

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[Eric Rescorla                                   ekr at rtfm.com]
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