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May 29, 2003

What NATs Break: NAT=bad, Part 2

Things NATs break
Global addressibility
Global uniqueness
Persistence of host-to-address binding
Address structure
Deployability of new applications
Reliability
Scalability
Private address spaces and VPNs

These apply also to a future topic: Things IPv4-to-IPv6 gateways break.

Previous in this series: Problems with NAT, IP Address Thunking: NAT=bad, Part 1

Posted by pete at May 29, 2003 1:09 PM