use of (the term) NAT considered dangerous

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Subject: use of (the term) NAT considered dangerous
From: S Woodside <sbwoodside at yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 13:54:50 -0400
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since usually you mean NAPT. Realistically speaking, almost every NAT that's out there in the real world is actually a NAPT. In fact I think that NAT is so rare that it really should be called NA(!P)T to be completely clear that there is no port translation going on.

simon

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