Michael Thomas <mat@cisco.com> writes:
> Eric Rescorla writes:
> > Michael Thomas <mat@cisco.com> writes:
> >
> > > Eric Rescorla 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.
> > >
> > > Uh, have you paid no attention to voice? It
> > > qualifies on both counts. We get complaints from
> > > customers each and every day... the ones that are
> > > lucky enough to figure out that NAT is why their
> > > IP phone doesn't work that is.
> >
> > As I said, these would be screened off by corporate firewalls in most
> > cases anyway.
>
> That there are also issues with firewalls is
> entirely beside the point. And firewall traversal
> using a VPN is a trivial and deployed solution to
> the firewall traversal problem.
And you can use similar solutions to traverse NATs, albeit
with slightly similar technology.
-Ekr
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