2010-11-11

Yes NAT is evil

Well, I am at the 6::uk launch and it is really reassuring to have a speaker from RIPE telling us how evil NAT is...

When you consider that RIPE are the people that allocate IP addresses to us, they are exactly the sort of people that would like to reduce how many IPs we need to take from them. Clearly they do, but not at the cost of having NAT..

Ooh, and Vint Cerf is very keen on not using NAT as are Comcast...
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