On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 08:56:19PM +0200, Joris Dobbelsteen wrote:
> I've read the drafts about NAT (finally),
>
> As Dan said, NAT will be used, what is not a problem if it's only - AND
> ONLY - used by home users that want to route there network to the Internet
> and have a simple (free) Internet account, that only provides one
> public/Internet IP address to them.
>
> Let's assume MOST (not all) home users won't make much use from all the
> security services that are provides, like IPSec (SSL, etc. with e.g. HTTPS
> is not a problem). They also don't have complex networks and only want to be
> able to use a web browser, send/receive e-mail and play a game on the
AH, play a game on the Internet.... but you can't develop new types of games
using some advanced protocol when it doesn't work because NAT would require
an application level gateway...
Regards,
-is
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