Hans Witvliet wrote:
Also, NAT is at best a bad hack to extend IPv4.
Well, maybe that is matter of opinion, but I would say that NAT is a very useful mechanism for connecting RFC1918 networks with the outside world.
No problem for people who only initiate towards internet. Problem arises when those people want to be reachable.
In iptables speak "destination NAT'ing" - no problems, it works very well.
True, that not everybody wants their own web/mail/torrent server, but a growing number of people are using voip. Though SIP works with nat, it's a cause of many problems...
Don't most SIP devices have a tickbox for "NAT keep-alive" these days? Anyway, running a stun daemon takes care of it. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (25.2°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org