Re: Dynamic IP hack (PR#294)

Meelis Roos (mroos@tartu.cyber.ee)
Wed, 21 Oct 1998 18:00:09 +0300


RW> Would your customers be unhappy if you installed a firewall? If not,
RW> then it's very simple to get hold of MILLIONS of addresses for static
RW> IP purposes, as has been stated at least twice before...

IP masq != firewall in a strict sense. With NAT, your clients can not use
many protocols that they could use otherwise.

Still, for most clients it's ok. ICQ w/incoming calls is the only one I've
had problems with in such setup ;-)

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Meelis Roos (mroos@tartu.cyber.ee)

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