On Sun, 2010-12-26 at 17:11 -0500, Genes MailLists wrote: > Historically, we used nat for 2 purposes: > > (1) to shield inside machines > (2) free up ipv4 (was an accidental consequence of (1) Actually IIRC you have that the wrong way round. NAT was invented to deal with address space exhaustion, and had the side-effect of hiding machines behind the router. poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines