Private address and static IP as an commercial offer.

Hi,

On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 02:12:42PM +0200, Hans Petter Holen wrote:
> | > the informal ietf position is that there are no advantages to nats, and
> | > lots of disadvantages.
> | Which is a known point of view :)
> Maybe that point of view is there for a reason ?

Well - the IETF considers IP an end-to-end thing, which is a valid point
of view, but obviously not the only one.  Especially for security reasons,
things like proxies might be desireable, which also break end-to-end IP,
just at a different layer.

I'm not saying that NAT is the cure for all evils, I just want to 
state that it is not the *root* of all evils either.

Gert Doering
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