On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Jay Ashworth <j...@baylink.com> wrote: > It is regularly alleged, on this mailing list, that NAT is bad *because it > violates the end-to-end principle of the Internet*, where each host is a > full-fledged host, able to connect to any other host to perform transactions.
That's what firewalls *are for* Jay. They intentionally break end-to-end for communications classified by the network owner as undesirable. Whether a particular firewall employs NAT or not is largely beside the point here. Either way, the firewall is *supposed* to break some of the end to end communication paths. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William D. Herrin ................ her...@dirtside.com b...@herrin.us 3005 Crane Dr. ...................... Web: <http://bill.herrin.us/> Falls Church, VA 22042-3004
