Re: Poll: Both ends behind NAT...

There is no problem, as long you control the NAT router. 

There is a problem if your ISP is forcing NAT on you as
a tool to prevent you from offering services (which technically
means, that your machine can be contacted from the internet).

There may be several reasons for your ISP to do so:

Diffenciated services: You want a machine, that can be contacted from
the internet: No problem, upgrade to a more expensive ISP contract.

Fighting peer to peer: Peer to peer technologies make it very hard to control
 information flow.  So Government naturally do not like peer 2 peer as
 does the content industry. 

John Walker was pessimistic, so he stopped his work with speak freely.
In a very clean way I want to say, everything neatly archived, and a 
clear timetable. 

Johannes


On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 01:36:39AM -0700, Tom Scott wrote:
> My partner and I use SF behind NAT routers on both ends. He has a DSL
> modem that converts a public address to several local addresses, I have
> to use ISDN (anything faster not available in our rural area) with a
> similar setup. We had considerable trouble getting SF working at first,
> but with perseverance we found a way. I had to tell my Netgear RT-328 to
> forward all unrecognized packets to one private address and make sure
> that my box was at that address. But that's simply a limitation of my
> ISDN router. A smarter router could easily make this  more flexible. 
> 
> I don't see why NAT is such an insurmountable problem! We simply need
> NAT server hardware and software that will keep track of where packets
> should be forwarded. Until we can get readily available modem/routers
> that make the job easier. Why couldn't we set up an old slow box with
> two NICs and some Linux code that would track and route packets from the
> public port to the local ports?
> 
>  
> - Tom Scott
> 
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