11 Dec
2000
11 Dec
'00
2:58 p.m.
Graham;
NAT is your friend - very few home users need real IP addresses.
NAT is our enemy. It effectively turns the customer's IP access into something which is not the real Public Internet -- more like an intranet, offering access to a subset of the Public Internet.
- Morning I've been watching this thread for a few days. I fail to see your point, why are so many people against NAT? in an isp situation..
Performance.
I admit it rasies an (slight) overhead and perhaps some latency but for the majority of your average ISP customers its ideal Why does Joe Blogs checking his mail and doing some surfing for books on amazon require a public ip address???
To watch TV over broadband network. Masataka Ohta