On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 10:34:21PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Worse yet, Network Address Translation (NAT), a technology widely > > used for enterprise security, operates by translating the 'from' and > > 'to' fields of Internet packets, thereby concealing the source or > > destination of each packet, and hence violating these bills. > > I think that's a far more liberal interpretation of the law than will > be applied, since as far as the ISP is concerned, only one box is > connected. I don't think NAT exactly advertises it's existence... Careful there. A bunch of oh so clever scientists figured out how to spot multiple boxes behind a NAT router, by means of looking at the IP "id" header field. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/05/2129218 -- x----------------------------------------------------------------------x | I maintain a Zero-Tolerance policy for | | Zero-Tolerance policy maintainers. | |----------------------------------------------------------------------| | Nicolas Kratz <nick@ikarus.dyndns.org> <n_kratz@cs.uni-frankfurt.de> | x----------------------------------------------------------------------x
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