Among the people I know, on the order of 35%. Not a majority, but, I would not call 1/3rd less than 1%.
Owen On Aug 4, 2011, at 4:08 PM, Dan Armstrong wrote: > > On 2011-08-04, at 6:43 PM, Owen DeLong <o...@delong.com> wrote: > >> >> On Aug 4, 2011, at 2:55 PM, Dan White wrote: >> >>> On 04/08/11 14:32 -0700, Owen DeLong wrote: >>>> >>>> On Aug 4, 2011, at 2:08 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: >>>> >>>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>>>> From: "Owen DeLong" <o...@delong.com> >>>>> >>>>>> On Aug 4, 2011, at 8:35 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>>> - Generic consumer grade NAT/Firewall >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Hobby horse: please make sure it support bridge mode? Those of us who >>>>>>> want to put our own routers on the wire will hate you otherwise. >>>>>> >>>>>> Why? As long as it can be a transparent router, why would it need to >>>>>> be a bridge? >>>>> >>>>> Ask a Verizon FiOS customer who wants to run IPv4 VPNs. >>>>> >>>>> He didn't say IPv6 only, right? >>>>> >>>>> I have a couple of customers who can't get bridge mode on residence FiOS >>>>> service, and therefore can't run their own routers to terminate IPsec. >>>>> >>>> If they could get routed static IPv4 rather than bridge, why wouldn't they >>>> be able to terminate IPSec VPNs? Note I did say TRANSPARENT router. >>>> That would mean no NAT and routed static IPv4. >>> >>> For residential use, for users currently requesting one public address, >>> that's a waste of a /30 block (sans routing tricks requiring higher end >>> customer equipment). Multiply that by the number of residential customers >>> you have and that's bordering on mismanagement of your address space. >>> >> You say waste, I say perfectly valid use. >> >>> If you're dealing with business customers, then your usage versus wasted >>> ratio is much higher and less of a concern, but what's the point? Are you >>> trying to cut down on a large broadcast domain? >>> >> Why is it less of a waste to allocate a /30 to a business using a single >> public >> IP than it is to a residence? This makes no sense to me. >> >> I simply prefer the additional troubleshooting and other capabilities given >> to me in a routed environment in most cases. >> >> Owen >> > > Realistically, how many home Internet consumers terminate IPSec VPNs? > > It seems kind of silly to engineer a network around a tiny fraction of less > than 1% of the population, doesn't it?
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