Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

[Dave Cridland <dave at cridland.net>]

On Tue Mar 28 11:33:27 2006, Austin Schutz wrote:
> 	The limitations of NAT you mention make little difference to most
> of the NAT users I am familiar with. These are typically end users 
> or
> small organizations. They generally don't know what they are 
> missing, and NAT
> works adequately well for their purposes.

Ah, but there's more. NAT is sold as a firewalling solution, not as a 
cheap hack to share a single-user DSL.


> 	The financial penalty from using non-natted ipv4 space is less of
> an issue to larger organizations.

The first time I saw NAT outside of the hacker-at-home was in a 
reasonably sized ISP, about ten years ago. Since NAT is sold as a 
foolproof plug-and-play firewall - the lack of global addressability 
is promoted as an advantage - then larger organizations do use it.

Dave.
--
          You see things; and you say "Why?"
  But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"
   - George Bernard Shaw

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