Re: [v6ops] double nat

Mark Townsley <mark@townsley.net> Wed, 03 October 2012 16:07 UTC

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30 levels of NAT for your viewing pleasure:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrlwzZZp8tM

- Mark

On Oct 2, 2012, at 12:13 PM, Randy Bush wrote:

> so, is double nat really worse than single nat?  is it formally
> different?  except in the case of overlapping spaces, of course.
> 
> draft-donley-nat444-impacts-04.txt seems to back off reports of
> application issues.  anyone care to swing the clue by four as to
> where multiple layers of nat are formally worse than one layer?
> 
> randy
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