[45423] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fwd: SlashDot: "Comcast Gunning for NAT Users"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Fri Feb 1 11:18:26 2002
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To: David Charlap <David.Charlap@marconi.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 01 Feb 2002 10:38:24 EST."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
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On Fri, 01 Feb 2002 10:38:24 EST, David Charlap <David.Charlap@marconi.com> said:
> Here's their out against NATs. They are prohibiting use "as an
> end-point of a non-compast local area network".
Ahh... but the box doing the NAT isn't an end-point, it's a router. ;)
And if they want to argue "but it's also an endpoint for a LAN", they'll
have to figure out how that's any different than a USB or FireWire setup
(after all, those *are* networks too, if you think about it....)
RFC2734 IPv4 over IEEE 1394. P. Johansson. December 1999. (Format:
TXT=69314 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
Slippery slope there.....
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Valdis Kletnieks
Computer Systems Senior Engineer
Virginia Tech
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