Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Oct 1998 18:00:09 +0300 | From | Meelis Roos <> | Subject | Re: Dynamic IP hack (PR#294) |
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RW> Would your customers be unhappy if you installed a firewall? If not, RW> then it's very simple to get hold of MILLIONS of addresses for static RW> IP purposes, as has been stated at least twice before...
IP masq != firewall in a strict sense. With NAT, your clients can not use many protocols that they could use otherwise.
Still, for most clients it's ok. ICQ w/incoming calls is the only one I've had problems with in such setup ;-)
-- Meelis Roos (mroos@tartu.cyber.ee)
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