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Re: Breaking Stuff by Fixing NAT

  • From: Valdis.Kletnieks
  • Date: Mon Nov 11 22:28:44 2002

On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 16:04:07 PST, "Crist J. Clark" <[email protected]>  said:

> Has anyone here been in a similar situation? Did turning off NAT break
> anything? Is anyone aware of or can think of anything that turning off
> NAT might break? (Ignore the fact any customers connected during the

If the users have been getting a static address in the 10/8 range, they may
have it hardcoded someplace.  If they've been getting their address/netmask/
DNS/etc via DHCP, then they'd already have discovered it breaks when they
hardcode it since the next time they connect they'll be up a creek.
-- 
				Valdis Kletnieks
				Computer Systems Senior Engineer
				Virginia Tech

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