- From: Patrik Fältström <paf@cisco.com>
- Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 18:14:35 +0100
- To: Brian E Carpenter <brian@hursley.ibm.com>
- Cc: Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com>, discuss@apps.ietf.org
On måndag, dec 2, 2002, at 16:06 Europe/Stockholm, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > The question is, what are the applications-specific arguments > against translated addresses? What are the brokenness conditions > caused by translated addresses (and the associated statefulness)? FTP, SIP and DNS are three protocols which have problems. Or not really SIP but anything which uses RTP and is launched by an SDP specification. Or, if you look at the situation when more than one host share one IP address (not really address translation, but anyway, the normal way NAT is implemented -- as 1:N mappings) and you have more than one host listening for incoming connections, like an SMTP server. paf
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