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From: Anthony Sorace <anothy@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] NAT implementation
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the idea is interesting, but it's a compliment, not a replacement.
there's plenty of situations where installing something on all your
hosts is either impractical or undesirable; centralizing the work in
network infrastructure is often a big win. doing what you describe
hits a different set of use cases.