Melinda Shore <mshore@cisco.com> writes:
> > What applications that people want to run--and the IT managers would
> > want to enable--are actually inhibited by NAT? It seems to me that
> > most of the applications inconvenienced by NAT are ones that IT
> > managers would want to screen off anyway.
>
> Not really. For example, ftp as originally defined doesn't
> work through NATs, and no standard VoIP or multimedia
> conferencing protocol works through NAT.
None of these things worked real well through firewalls either,
which is sort of my point.
-Ekr
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