On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 09:28 -0400, Anton Aylward wrote:
James Knott said the following on 08/06/2010 08:48 AM: Here, we're "rational technocrats". Joe Sixpack isn't. He's not interested in "protocols" and "FTP'. To him NAT is just another tick-off item on a feature list. He's not interested in being able to access any machine on his home network and wouldn't understand the issues we're discussion here. He might even be upset with IPV6 because, even though he doesn't understand what it is,
And he understands what IPv4 is? "Bogosity is at 107% captain!"
Mythical [and just as non-existent] Joe Sixpack WILL care with his VOIP
doesn't work, he can't file-transfer through his instant messenger, his
BitTorrent client won't seed, and this new MMORPG client just times out.
All because of this crazy thing called NAT that he doesn't even know
what it is.
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Adam Tauno Williams