i know this thread died a few moons ago, and wont help anyone guess
the height limit of warships under bridges, but in case anyone's
interested in a rough guess of where people play net games from,
along with a slighly revised estimate of NAT usage, i've crunched
some numbers and placed results
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kyle Lussier typ
ed:
"is anyone aware of any estimations of fraction of Internet users
who are behind firewalls and NATs?"
How about for business users? If the assumption can be made
that most Q3 players are home based (which would probably
have a lower
Jiri Kuthan wrote:
[..]
I would like to re-raise the question:
"is anyone aware of any estimations of fraction of Internet users
who are behind firewalls and NATs?"
So, this question piqued my interest. Figured I'd take a
bash at estimating NAT usage using the online QuakeIII
Hello,
as the discussion departed from my original question to
the favorite discussion on NAT/ipv6/etc architectural issues,
I would like to re-raise the question:
"is anyone aware of any estimations of fraction of Internet users
who are behind firewalls and NATs?"
Thanks,
Jiri
Jiri Kuthan wrote:
Hello,
as the discussion departed from my original question to
the favorite discussion on NAT/ipv6/etc architectural issues,
I would like to re-raise the question:
"is anyone aware of any estimations of fraction of Internet users
who are behind firewalls and NATs?"
At 12:10 PM -0500 1/23/01, Frank Solensky wrote:
One could ask a sample of administrators and extrapolate the results
but, again, the problem becomes how confident you could be of the
results if you don't get a very significant response rate
The problem is *much* worse than that. You have to be
Exactly. More or less by definition, since NATs and firewalls hide
stuff, we can't possibly measure the stuff they hide.
And since they are hiding stuff for good reason, administrators
more or less by definition will not answer accurately. So it can't
be measured.
My hand waving estimate is that
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Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 3:10 PM
To: Paul Hoffman / IMC
Cc: Frank Solensky; Jiri Kuthan; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Again: Number of Firewall/NAT Users
Exactly. More or less by definition, since NATs and firewalls hide
stuff, we can't possibly measure the stuff
