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Re: quietly....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (david raistrick)
Tue Feb 1 17:20:30 2011
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 17:03:51 -0500 (EST)
From: david raistrick <drais@icantclick.org>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <0A77875D-59A4-422A-A5D4-116A0C5EE536@delong.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, 1 Feb 2011, Owen DeLong wrote:
> NAT solves exactly one problem. It provides a way to reduce address
> consumption to work around a shortage of addresses.
>
> It does not solve any other problem(s).
Sure it does.
It obfuscates internal addressing.
This wasn't the original goal, but it's a "feature" that some groups of
users have come to require.
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