From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <60cb2337d3d9e0f79f6a7fcb2db4091b@kw.quanstro.net> References: <5fa9fbfe115a9cd5a81d0feefe413192@quintile.net> <4fa1305e0f56a0ef89c2e05320fa5997@coraid.com> <43de5c2167c0a4851aeafaa07a0b982d@kw.quanstro.net> <816a521c149b06088f5023d3dfddf0ed@kw.quanstro.net> <28481.87344.qm@web1213.biz.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <60cb2337d3d9e0f79f6a7fcb2db4091b@kw.quanstro.net> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:39:53 -0700 Message-ID: From: Christopher Nielsen To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] A simple experiment Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1425ff4c-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 13:40, erik quanstrom wrote= : >> It doesn't play well with firewalls, NAT, or deep inspection because >> none of the vendors have added support for it. I tried to get Cisco to >> add IL support back in 2001, but they politely refused. > > oddly, i'm not having trouble going through 5 different nats > over 2 residential and 2 business dsl lines. =C2=A0one of the connections > traverses 2 nats before reaching the intertubes. Interesting. I've seen quite a few problems in the past that were all traced back to NAT or a firewall not handling IL properly. Admittedly, I haven't used IL recently, so maybe something has changed. It's good to hear that you're not having trouble. --=20 Christopher Nielsen "They who can give up essential liberty for temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants." --Thomas Jefferson