[45358] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SlashDot: "Comcast Gunning for NAT Users"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Keith Woodworth)
Thu Jan 31 16:38:34 2002
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 13:37:59 -0800 (PST)
From: Keith Woodworth <kwoody@citytel.net>
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On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Dan Hollis wrote:
|+On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Marc Pierrat wrote:
|+> It's not very enforceable, so I'd be very surprised to see much money
|+> spent on this witch hunt.
|+
|+At least one provider has a fully staffed full time "anti-nat" divison
|+now. But will they burn more cash in the nat witch-hunt than they save?
|+
|+I also wonder about false positives. Watch the lawsuits fly as they
|+mistakenly cutoff non-nat customers.
From a technical standpoint how does one detect NAT users over the
network?
Keith