Subject: Re: LL usage example: LL-only homenetwork with single global address + NAT

From: Stuart Cheshire <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 23:27:44 -0800

> - a gateway router perfoming the ugly NAT service for outbound
>   connections

This is off-topic, so the answer will be brief.

The current draft explicitly prohibits this, for a reason. There's 
nothing wrong with DHCP. If you want to do this, put a DHCP server in the 
NAT box (as virtually all do today). IPv4LL is not proposed as a 
replacement for DHCP.

Stuart Cheshire <[email-masked]>
 * Wizard Without Portfolio, Apple Computer, Inc.
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