> I think you missed the important point. It's not the NAT vendors, it's > the ISPs. I'll grant that ISPs have something to do with it. But there is a shortage of IPv4 addresses, so it's not as if anybody can have as many as they want. And it's not the fact that people are selling NAT that I find objectionable, it's the fact that they are marketing them as a general purpose solution - misleading people about their applicability - rather than a stopgap measure. Keith