Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

[Kurt Erik Lindqvist <kurtis at kurtis.pp.se>]

On 28 mar 2006, at 00.11, Keith Moore wrote:

> > 	NAT is a done deal. It's well supported at network edges. It solves
> > the addressing issue, which was what the market wanted. It voted  
> > for NAT with
> > dollars and time. It is the long term solution - not because it is  
> > better, but
> > because it is.
>
> NAT is a dead end.  If the Internet does not develop a way to  
> obsolete NAT, the Internet will die.  It will gradually be replaced  
> by networks that are more-or-less IP based but which only run a  
> small number of applications, poorly, and expensively.


...or you will see an overlay network build on top of NAT+IPv4 that  
abstracts the shortcomings away - aka what the peer to peer networks  
are doing. End-to-end addressing...

- kurtis -

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