Re: Number of Firewall/NAT Users

[Matt Holdrege]

At 02:38 PM 1/20/2001, Jim McMurry wrote:
>Then it seems we will have to create an ever expanding bandwidth to support
>all the overhead associated with NAT and these multiple layers.

The overhead comes in the form of complexity rather than bandwidth.

But complaining about NAT is not a new fad and usage of NAT hasn't been 
stemmed the tiniest bit. We can't keep burying our heads in the sand and 
trying to deny new work on dealing with NAT. It's here, it isn't going away 
and we have to find solutions for applications that need to deal with NAT.

Work in this area is starting in the new MIDCOM working group. But some 
people are still worried about being politically correct with respect to 
denying the perceived legitimacy of NAT. I think we need to go full force 
in finding solutions in an open standards group rather than having a closed 
group solve the problem in an inelegant fashion.