Re: IP network address assignments/allocations information?

[Keith Moore]

> The NAT problems only
> start when the protocol carries IP address/port information (such
> as the FTP 'PORT' command), and the NAT isn't aware of that protocol's
> translation requirements 

this is a popular misconception; it's a bit like saying that y2k
only breaks programs that store years in two digits.  

see http://www.cs.utk.edu/~moore/what-nats-break.html
for my attempt to list the various ways that programs can lose
in the presence of NATs.

Keith