Rick Funderburg wrote: > > 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. >
You aroused my curiosity .. googling on "NAT router" UPNP brought up several hits (of course) Here's one that seems readable: "Solving the NAT Traversal Problem" http://www.burtongroup.com/promo/columns/column.asp?articleid=246&employeeid=56 ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
