HI, On the list below, I believe that peer-to-peer applications like napster can work in a NAT world. All you need is a registration and rendezvous service to put the two peers together. This can be part of the box that also provides the NAT service. At 05:54 PM 1/31/2001 -0500, Michael Richardson wrote: > NAT's work for web surfing. No dispute here. > > NAT's make the Internet into TV. > > NAT's suck for napster-type applications. > It was napster like (e.g. peer-to-peer) things that made the Internet >popular. Based upon some data on "web ready cell phones" being used primarily >to send text messages (e.g. do "peer-to-peer" type things), I'd say that >the love for NATs will very soon decline. > > :!mcr!: | Solidum Systems Corporation, http://www.solidum.com > Michael Richardson Regards, /david t. perkins
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