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Re: quietly....

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Thu Feb 3 14:34:49 2011

To: Matthew Huff <mhuff@ox.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 03 Feb 2011 13:41:26 EST."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 14:28:32 -0500
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 13:41:26 EST, Matthew Huff said:
> Owen, can you point to a application protocol that is broken via NAT that
> isn't a p2p protocol or VoIP?

The only reason FTP works through a NAT is because the NAT has already
been hacked up to further mangle the data stream to make up for the
mangling it does.

I'm told that IPSEC through a NAT can be interesting too...  And that's
something I'm also told some corporations are interested in.

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