Re: Why does Valdis trust UL?

2002-01-30 Thread Tony Dal Santo
Does UL go after companies that produce unsafe devices. My guess would be no. As far as UL is concerned, companies voluntarily bring their products to them for certification. It is the consumers and legal authorities that give UL such a big stick. And with this model, UL seems to be fairly

Re: NATs *ARE* evil!

2000-12-18 Thread Tony Dal Santo
Perry E. Metzger wrote: They can't avoid it. They need to get their work done. They have no way of getting registered addresses. They're told to use NAT by organizations like ARIN, and so they do the only thing they can. I have a hard time believing ARIN is telling people to use NAT, when

Re: IP network address assignments/allocations information?

1999-12-01 Thread Tony Dal Santo
John Day wrote: Cmon, surely you can come up with a better counterargument than that! ;-)) I certainly could. If it is architecturally acceptable for those protocols to rewrite the address field at every hop, why shouldn't it be for IP? How does it differ? Basically a NAT is doing what