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Re: Thomas Narten's DISCUSS vote
What a tangled web is that,
Devised by those who practice NAT.
And would we all not be much better,
Had we not used a pseudohdr?
Anonymous
God in his wisdom made the NAT,
Now please tell me, why is that?
Ogden Hash
Because, without warning, on Tue, 26 May 1998 at 07:51:13 -0700 (MST) Steve
Bellovin intoned:
> The objection is valid -- because of the transport checksum, which
> is protected by ESP-NULL's integrity algorithm, the IP addresses
> can't be tinkered with in a useful fashion. (Well, I suppose that
> a NAT box could change the source port number to offset the changes
> to the addresses -- but I don't really regard that as useful...)
> ESP-NULL has a lot of advantages -- but enabling NAT isn't one of them.
> (Well, I suppose that one could argue that defeating NAT is itself
> a nice feature, but that's out of bounds for this WG...)