On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 07:41:13PM -0500, Michael Mol wrote

> The trouble with NAT is that it destroys peer-to-peer protocols. The
> first was FTP in Active mode.

  In its day, it was OK.  Nowadays, we use passive mode.  What's the
problem?

> SIP has been heavily damaged as well.  Anyone who's used IRC is
> familiar with the problems NAT introduces to DCC.

  Every ADSL router-modem I've run into recently has port-forwarding.

> Anyone who's ever played video games online,...

  A *CLIENT* that can't operate from behind NAT is totally brain-dead.

> or who's tried hosting a Teamspeak or Ventrillo server, has had NAT
> get in their way as well.

  Port-forwarding.

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

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