Re: ReN: IPv6 tranisition issues

Keith Moore <[email protected]> Tue, 31 Dec 2002 00:28:54 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.ngtrans
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>  A NAT box is just simply
> a retooled router, 

that's a truly bizarre statement.  I suppose it's true from a 
hardware perspective, but it's like saying that a NAT box is
just a retooled computer with a couple of network interfaces -
true, but irrelevant to the question at hand.

> just that some are better and some are worse.

all NATs break applications.  some NATs know about a few more 
protocols than others, but no NAT can handle every possible protocol,
many protocols simply cannot be made to work transparently through NAT.

Keith