Re: draft-ietf-nat-protocol-complications-02.txt

[Dick St.Peters]

> > Most users are not
> > networking geeks.  They like NAT because NAT boxes make what they want
> > to do so easy.
> 
> presumably they don't realize that the NATs are making it hard 
> to do other things that they might want to do.
> 
> I wonder...how many of these folks really want network address 
> translation, versus those who just want the other things that
> NAT boxes often do?   (DHCP, firewall, hub, router, all with 
> really easy setup)

Bingo.  Most don't even know what NAT is.  They buy a box that does
what they want with easy setup and sometimes never mentions NAT.
(What they want doesn't include DHCP; they mostly don't know what that
is either.)

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Dick St.Peters, [EMAIL PROTECTED]