On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 05:22:03PM -0300, Rodrigo Senra wrote: > > This would break lots of protocols. How would the clients put up with > > this broken functionality? > > Good observation. Yes it breaks some (all not NAT-able), and when this is used > clients have to live up with the limitations. But as I said, for the time being > this is used to accomodate a multiple-ISP cenario where clients need basically > HTTP, FTP, and less percentage of H.323.
Just a small note. FTP is one of the protocols that would break... Ramin > > Take notice that NAT takes place before the packets reach their service providers. > So maybe, I couldn't call it properly "NAT an ISP" as the title suggests. > > > Or maybe they tunnel on top of this IP network > > Not that I know of. > Thank you for your observations. > > regards, > Senra > -- > Rodrigo Senra > MSc Computer Engineer (GPr Sistemas Ltda) [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~921234 (LinUxer 217.243) (ICQ 114477550)
