Characteristics (1/2)
DNS modification is NOT necessary
- Address map servers are NOT necessary
- Global and wide reserved address space is NOT necessary
Application independent
- Basically support all applications which use the socket and DNS APIs
- Exceptions: applications which exchange IP address information at the application level. (e.g., ftp PORT command)
OS and NIC types independent
- Support both UNIX and Windows OSs
- Not depend on types of physical NICs.
Only easy socksify procedure is necessary
- Dynamic link library technique helps the socksification.
IPv6 new features (e.g., IPSec) can be introduced easily
- Since relayed two connections are terminated at the Translator