Prejudices(2) NAT's drawbacks NAT broke the end-to-end communication Unfriendly to some applications (FTP, streaming) Unfriendly to IPsec A single point of failure (# of exit is 1) NAT broke the bidirectional communication Killing home networks NAT does NOT provide MORE global IPv4 addresses Killing automobiles and mobile telephones NAT is a necessary evil NAT enlarges the lifetime of IPv4 But NAT cannot solve the real problems