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NAT444 or ?

David Israel wrote, on 09/07/2011 04:21 PM:
> In theory, this
> particular performance problem should only arise when the NAT gear insists on a
> unique port per session (which is common, but unnecessary)

What you're describing is known as "endpoint-independent mapping" behaviour. It
is good for not breaking applications, not so good for scalability. RFC 4787
section 4.1 makes it a MUST.

Simon
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