> -----Original Message----- > From: Cameron Byrne [mailto:cb.li...@gmail.com] > Ip mobility via gtp or mobile ip generally does not work when you nat > at the > 'edge'. If you don't want your ip address to change every time you > change > cell sites, the nat has to be centralized. > > Cb
Indeed, networks with some kind of anchor point (even xDSL networks with a LNS that terminates PPP sessions) really lend themselves to a big fat NAT box simply because there is a single point where all the connections appear anyway so why not have a single box doing NAT/DPI/etc as well? I'd agree that, usually, distributed is better but these are not distributed networks, there is a single point (or a few large single points) of contact. -- Leigh ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________
