> Every sensible NAT solution must be implemented with that in > mind--not that existing ones have been. Even imagining persistent > connections from an entire Class A network makes one shudder. > Needless to say, the wreak of havoc occurs _long_ before over 16 > million hosts need persistent connections.
Especially since you get only 64k TCP connections between any pair of IP addresses, e.g., between a NAT box and www.cnn.com. Are there any NAT solutions which handle millions of hosts? Are we having a discussion about unicorns? Dave Eckhardt