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         
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