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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Where NAT disenfranchises the end-user ...
> From: "Scott Gifford" <[email protected]> > I've actually seen the question of how NAT breaks the Internet more > than a good stateful firewall come up more than once, and haven't > really seen a satisfactory answer. Where does a stateful firewall > configured to only allow outgoing connections work that NAT doesn't? Anywhere the IP address is a part of the protocol, and a proxy for that protocol does not exist. Peer election protocols, replication protocols, etc. -- Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/
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