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From: "Leonard Milcin, Jr" <thervoy@post.pl>
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Luck, Tony wrote:
 > (...)
 > The fact that someone can deduce how many hosts are hidden behind
 > a NAT gateway may, or may not, be a bug ... depending on whether you
 > think that the NAT is supposed to keep this number a secret.  But there
 > (...)

Sometimes it is desirable to hide the true number of hosts behind the 
NAT. For example in home-made Linux NAT Gateways where few people share 
the same internet connections even if ISP doesn't allow sharing 
connection ;)




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