Re: Number of Firewall/NAT Users

[Harald Alvestrand]

At 12:42 22/01/2001 -0500, John Stracke wrote:
>There was even an analogy to NAT's "addresses embedded in the application data
>stream" problem: if you had an address in your .signature, the gateway 
>couldn't
>translate it, so the person receiving your message saw an address they 
>couldn't
>use.

I liked even better the horror story of the gateway that tried.....
until someone wrote "this gateway translates [EMAIL PROTECTED] into 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]", and it came out to the recipient as
"this gateway translates [EMAIL PROTECTED] into 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]".....which somehow failed to get the point 
across....

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