On 9/16/2011 1:30, Invisible wrote:
> With NAT, it can work perfectly well. At long as each endpoint knows the
> other only by its publicly routable IP address, anyway.

Assuming you have configured at least one to *have* a publicly routable IP 
address. That's kind of the point.

> There are probably web servers that run on RFC-1918 IP addresses. And plenty
> of home users who do. And yet, they can still talk to each other...

The problem comes when the person running the server doesn't know how to 
route traffic from the public IP address to the private one.

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