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RE: Large ISPs doing NAT?

  • From: Mansey, Jon
  • Date: Thu May 02 19:54:42 2002 
Why do you need a public IP to do ssh?

jm

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon Higgs [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 4:44 PM
> To: Scott Francis
> Cc: Peter Bierman; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Large ISPs doing NAT?
> 
> 
> 
> At 01:20 AM 5/2/2002 -0700, Scott Francis wrote:
> 
> >The average customer buying a "web-enabled" phone doesn't need a 
> >publicly-routeable IP. I challenge anybody to demonstrate why a cell 
> >phone needs a public IP. It's a PHONE, not a server.
> 
> I'm not buying a phone I can't run ssh from. End of story. My 
> current phone 
> does all that and more. Why step back into the dark ages of 
> analog-type 
> services?
> 
> 
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Simon
> 
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