Re: NATs *ARE* evil!

[Paul Ferguson]

I find it amazing (well, probably not so amazing)
that we are re-hashing this every few years.

It looks like NAT's are a fact of life, and we
just need to figure out how to deal with them.

- paul

At 07:59 PM 12/15/2000 -0500, Scott Bradner wrote:

>I will admit to some level of confusion
>the subject line of this thread is "NATs *ARE* evil!" yet most of the
>discussion is about the use of private addresses - something that 
>a whole lot of firewalls also do - howcum the subject line is
>not "NATs & Firewalls are evil!" or "use of private addresses is evil!"?
>
>this focus on NATs seems to be an incomplete statement of the problem