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Re: NAT and IPSEC INCOMPATIBLE???



> > By the way, there are certain markets where NAT is a requirement (such as
> > running IP to the guest rooms in hotels)

Until the hotels get more customers like Pat, who say that...

> hmm... so I HAVE to trust my hotel? What kind of customers are they looking
> for? If they are looking for the commuter, then NAT is a bad thing since I
> will want to encrypt my data back to my corporate network.

And by then they'll be looking for another alternative.

> > and IPSec is also extremely high profile.   It would help everyone out if
> > there was a built-in method to scale arbitarily
> > large for address translated IPSec connections - just with ESP, I don't
> > think that AH is as important to these users.

And that alternative is IPv6.  ESP works just fine over that.

Dan


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