On Mar 24, 2006, at 23:11 , Stewart Stremler wrote:

The big complain people tend to throw around with NAT is "it breaks
the inherent end-to-end connectivity of the Internet", which is exactly
what a default-deny setup on a firewall will do.


Note that this is not always the case with NAT any longer. Some NAT routers are coming with a UPNP (universal plug 'n play) service that allows applications to indicate that a port should be forwarded to them automatically.

-- Rick


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