Allocations for "always-on" ISPs

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> On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Neil J. McRae wrote:
> 
> >> Now, say that an ASP wants to offer some service to your customers
> >> (generating traffic = revenue) which has a communication pattern in which
> >> the ASP needs to connect to the customer's PC. Because of NAT, this is not
> >> possible.
> >
> >Yes it is, you just have to put in the configuration.

Well depending on the service port mapping can be used to deliver
services to customers - it doesn't work with everything but it does
work - I used to use it for Napster.

Regards,
Neil.