Re: IP network address assignments/allocations information?

[Perry E. Metzger]

Randy Bush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> get real.  a LOT of folk have deployed nat, hundreds every day.  it's easy.
> it solves the customer's perception of their problem.  it's not expensive.

It is *astonishingly* expensive. It only seems cheap until you have to
maintain it. And yes, I'm going by Actual Live Customer Experience In
Actual Live Large Companies.

I'll keep posting this so long as people keep on with the "NAT is
cheap and works well" myth. NAT is a fine solution for someone running
three Macs and a Linux box behind a cable modem. It does not, however,
scale, and This Costs Big Time. If you expect to run a large
enterprise on NAT, be prepared to do the moral equivalent of ripping
up $100 bills and flushing them down the toilet, hour after hour.

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Perry Metzger           [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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