I've got a customer that is looking to multihome with upstreams in two
POPs. Currently they multihome in one POP and utilize a single edge
router for some one to one NAT and some PAT for their users.
Before they turn up the BGP peer in the new POP I've advised them to
abolish NAT once and for all in order to avoid issues with non-stateful
NAT between network edges and possible asymmetric routing of their
Internet traffic.
The PAT can be removed easily enough. The tricky part is the one-one
NAT. They have quite a few systems which have 1918 IPs which they claim
"cannot be changed". At least not without some painful rebuilds of
criticals systems which have these IPs deeply embedded in their configs.
Has anyone here had to fix this kind of problem before? Is there a
solution that would allow NAT to offloaded to a smaller device hanging
off each edge router that can communicate state between each other in
case traffic is asymmetrically routed?
- Problems with removing NAT from a network ML
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