On 17/02/2007, at 7:14 PM, Steve Phillips wrote:
Nathan Ward wrote:
Proxies etc. can be deployed, and be working for everyone (save a few corner cases, perhaps), right now. They don't require any global switchover/upgrade/etc. and on top of that, they can be used as extra revenue streams/products/etc.
If everyone had one computer (network enabled device) behind one NAT device your statement may actually start approaching truth.
However, as is becoming increasingly common, this is not the case.
Please play again :-)
It'd still work, as far as I can see.. They wouldn't be able to do non-nat-friendly protocols to their ISP's proxy/etc. servers, but if the ISP chooses to support protocols that don't have that problem, it's not a problem. -- Nathan Ward