Michael writes: > Families are going toward a telephone per person > with caller id and/or distinctive ring to figure > out who should answer. That sure sounds like NAT > to me!
How so? Are they all using the same telephone number? > They would take a phone number per person, but > someone there aren't enough phone numbers available > cheaply enough or a mechanism to communicate > them to the end-node to make this work. Where is this? > My wife and I possess a total of 5 telephone > numbers (counting mobile and pagers) because the > phone company does not offer the equivalent > of mobileIP. So how is this anything like NAT? NAT would be one telephone number. > That works for some businesses perhaps. It fails > in most white collar work. It fails in all businesses, in this century. > Ever try to get ahold of someone *AFTER THE > RECEPTIONIST HAS GONE HOME*? Ever try to connect to machine B when NAT insists in directing all incoming connections to a given port on the one and only external IP address to machine A?
