User: nikwa

Please don't use NAT!

On: End Of the Line for SpeakFreely: NATed to Death

From http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0306/pdf/doyle.ppt (search google for above URL for conversion to HTML):
NAT Causes Problems
- Breaks globally unique address model
- Breaks address stability
- Breaks always-on model
- Breaks peer-to-peer model
- Breaks some applications
- Breaks some security protocols
- Breaks some QoS functions
- Introduces a false sense of security
- Introduces hidden costs
--- IPv6 = plentiful, global addresses = no NAT

NAT is one of the ugliest and most widespread Nasty Hacks in the history if the Interweb.