[41342] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Where NAT disenfranchises the end-user ...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Hain)
Thu Sep 6 20:45:06 2001
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From: "Tony Hain" <alh-ietf@tndh.net>
To: "Roeland Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>,
"'Jon Mansey'" <JMansey@interpacket.net>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 17:25:06 -0700
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Roeland Meyer wrote:
> ...
> Then consider that most developers are NOT network engineers.=20
> They expect the network to *be there*, period.
Or more completely, they expect the network to be transparent
so that every port at the destination IP address connects to=20
the same machine, and there is no operational restriction on=20
which end initiates the communication.=20
Tony
