[97261] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Security gain from NAT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adrian Chadd)
Tue Jun 5 07:06:46 2007
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 19:03:49 +0800
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
To: Mattias Ahnberg <mattias@ahnberg.pp.se>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <46654164.60508@ahnberg.pp.se>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, Jun 05, 2007, Mattias Ahnberg wrote:
>
> Donald Stahl wrote:
> > Keep it simple. NAT is a terrible terrible hack- and it's sad that it's
> > become so accepted in the maintsream.
>
> Probably mostly because it WORKS for people, it doesn't require you
> to be a network specialist.
You know, I can't help but see parallels between this and the IP versus other
protocols (esp OSI) from what I read during my stint as an undergraduate
EE. (No, I'm not an EE now.) I'm sure there's plenty of grumpy telco
people out there who think IP is just a hack and OSI/ATM/ISDN were the
technologies that were thought out 'right' and should've caught on, damnit!
Adrian
(won't post again on this thread, sorry!)
