Let's talk about yum and p2p in Fedora

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

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