On Wed, 16 Jan 2013, fredrik danerklint wrote:
From the article:
"Faced with the shortage of IPv4 addresses and the failure of IPv6 to take
off, British ISP PlusNet is testing carrier-grade network address translation
CG-NAT, where potentially all the ISP's customers could be sharing one IP
address, through a gateway. The move is controversial as it could make some
Internet services fail, but PlusNet says it is inevitable, and only a test at
this stage."
I would hope that PlusNet has valid, well-thought-out reasons for
deploying CGN instead of IPv6. Not knowing those, I can only jugde their
position on its face: foolish and short-sighted.
To quote a NANOG veteran: "I encourage my competitors to do this" :)
jms
