Subject: Re: Big Temporary Networks Date: Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 01:11:54PM -0500 Quoting Jimmy Hess (mysi...@gmail.com): > On 9/15/12, Masataka Ohta <mo...@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp> wrote: > > Mans Nilsson wrote: > > >> I am not suggesting that. I'm just trying to point out that there > >> might be a bunch of assumptions that aren't as true anymore when a > >> lot of client connections share both source and destination address, > >> and perhaps also destination port. If this happens simultaneously when > >> a large amount of other tcp connections are NATed through the same box, > >> resource starvation will occur. > > Assumptions that are already broken in Enterprise networks where 100+ > users may share an IP
<snip LONG description of fragile b0rkendeness applied to a perfectly working network without NAT just so that NAT can be used to break it even more> Warum einfach, wenn es auch kompliziert geht? -- Måns Nilsson primary/secondary/besserwisser/machina MN-1334-RIPE +46 705 989668 The FALAFEL SANDWICH lands on my HEAD and I become a VEGETARIAN ...
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