Nov 14 09:44 2017, Alexey Vissarionov wrote to Carol Shenkenberger:
AV> People who want to get Fidonet links (primarily for echomail feeds) AV> have different types of Internet connections: most are behind dumb AV> NATs, some connections are additionally limited on which outer AV> services are allowed (especially in corporate networks) and some are AV> just enormously expensive (mobile connections being the most obvious AV> example). So, to provide these downlinks with echomail, we have to AV> find methods of circumventing all the restrictions they have.
The exhaustion of IPv4 address space forces many ISPs/telcos to migrate customers to CGNAT or DSlite. I fully agree that we have to look into finding solutions for nodes affected by those issues. Another problem is legacy software only supporting IPv4.
