Re: Survey on IPv4 Scarcity, IPv6 Adoption, Carrier-Grade NAT Deployment

2015-12-17 Thread Philipp Richter
t > to assess the effects of IPv4 address exhaustion. > > As part of our research, we conduct a survey among network operators. > The goal of this survey is to better understand the degree of IPv4 > scarcity that ISPs face and which measures are taken to combat it (IPv4 > Carrier

Survey on IPv4 Scarcity, IPv6 Adoption, Carrier-Grade NAT Deployment

2015-12-07 Thread Philipp Richter
this survey is to better understand the degree of IPv4 scarcity that ISPs face and which measures are taken to combat it (IPv4 Carrier-Grade NAT deployment, IPv4 address markets, and IPv6 transition mechanisms). If you work for an ISP that connects end-users to the Internet, we would greatly

Re: Carrier Grade NAT

2014-08-01 Thread Shawn L
Slightly off-topic but what are people using as a cpe device in a dual-stack scenario like this? On Friday, August 1, 2014, Lee Howard wrote: > > > On 7/30/14 3:45 PM, "joshua rayburn" > > wrote: > > > > >Starting in 3.10 code you can utilize Bulk Port Allocation to carve out > >small consecutiv

Re: Carrier Grade NAT

2014-08-01 Thread Lee Howard
On 7/30/14 3:45 PM, "joshua rayburn" wrote: > >Starting in 3.10 code you can utilize Bulk Port Allocation to carve out >small consecutive port bundles for end users as to not mess up SIP >functionsand High Speed Logging to log individual customers ports for law >enforcement needs without overru

Re: Carrier Grade NAT

2014-07-30 Thread Matt Palmer
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 08:05:28PM -0400, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jul 2014 16:39:14 -0700, Owen DeLong said: > > > I was talking about Amazon, not AWS. Yes, AWS would help too, but in terms > > of > > the Alexa list, Amazon would swing the percentage meaningfully. I don’t > >

Re: Carrier Grade NAT

2014-07-30 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jul 30, 2014, at 3:55 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > > In message <53d96dbd.3070...@dougbarton.us>, Doug Barton writes: >> On 07/30/2014 11:41 AM, Fred Baker (fred) wrote: >>> Someone that works for Amazon once told me that they are primed for it now >> >> Pun intended? :) > > The best thing Am

Re: Carrier Grade NAT

2014-07-30 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 30 Jul 2014 16:39:14 -0700, Owen DeLong said: > I was talking about Amazon, not AWS. Yes, AWS would help too, but in terms of > the Alexa list, Amazon would swing the percentage meaningfully. I don’t know > to > what extent AWS would swing the percentage. There's probably not much stuff

Re: Carrier Grade NAT

2014-07-30 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jul 30, 2014, at 11:41 AM, Fred Baker (fred) wrote: > > On Jul 30, 2014, at 8:45 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: > >> I will say that if amazon would get off the dime and support IPv6, it would >> make a significant difference. > > Someone that works for Amazon once told me that they are primed

Re: Carrier Grade NAT

2014-07-30 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <53d96dbd.3070...@dougbarton.us>, Doug Barton writes: > On 07/30/2014 11:41 AM, Fred Baker (fred) wrote: > > Someone that works for Amazon once told me that they are primed for it now > > Pun intended? :) The best thing Amazon could do would be to stop stocking IPv4 only CPE devices.

Re: Carrier Grade NAT

2014-07-30 Thread Doug Barton
On 07/30/2014 11:41 AM, Fred Baker (fred) wrote: Someone that works for Amazon once told me that they are primed for it now Pun intended? :)

Re: Carrier Grade NAT

2014-07-30 Thread joshua rayburn
enforcement needs without overrunning your logging server. On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Colton Conor wrote: > We are looking for recommendations for a carrier grade nat solution. Who is > the leaders in this space? How do carrier grade NAT platforms integrate > with DHCP and DNS solutions? H

Re: Carrier Grade NAT

2014-07-30 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
On Jul 30, 2014, at 8:45 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: > I will say that if amazon would get off the dime and support IPv6, it would > make a significant difference. Someone that works for Amazon once told me that they are primed for it now; the question is whether their customers tick the box appr

Re: Carrier Grade NAT

2014-07-30 Thread Ca By
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 11:56 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > > In message > , Gary > Buhrmaster writes: >> On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 5:22 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: >> > >> > On Jul 29, 2014, at 4:13 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: >> . >> >> Add to that over half your traffic will switch to IPv6 as long as

Re: Carrier Grade NAT

2014-07-30 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
On Jul 30, 2014, at 8:45 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: > I will say that if amazon would get off the dime and support IPv6, it would > make a significant difference. Per Microsoft public statements, they are now moving address space allocated them in Brazil to the US to fill a major service shortfa

Re: Carrier Grade NAT

2014-07-30 Thread Doug Barton
On 07/30/2014 09:16 AM, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Corey Touchet said: Comcast is pushing over 1TBPS of IPv6 traffic, but I¹m sure that¹s mainly video from Youtube and Netflix. One thing to remember about the video services that do support IPv6 is that a lot of end users, even if t

Re: Carrier Grade NAT

2014-07-30 Thread TJ
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: > Amazon apparently recently hired Yurie Rich Spence> to work on their issues. > And Yurie recently posted an opening for an IPv6 Engineer at same ... for any so inclined. /TJ

Re: Carrier Grade NAT

2014-07-30 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Corey Touchet said: > Comcast is pushing over 1TBPS of IPv6 traffic, but I¹m sure that¹s mainly > video from Youtube and Netflix. One thing to remember about the video services that do support IPv6 is that a lot of end users, even if they have IPv6 in the home, won't see them o

Re: Carrier Grade NAT

2014-07-30 Thread Corey Touchet
There¹s still a lot of websites that are not with the times. No ipv6 on CNN, FOX, or NBC news websites. Slashdot.org shame on you! Comcast and AT&T work, but not Verizon. No surprise there. Power company nope. I think CGN is fine for 99% of customers out there. Until the iPhone came out Ve

Re: Carrier Grade NAT

2014-07-30 Thread Owen DeLong
The only actual residential data I can offer is my own. I am fully dual stack and about 40% of my traffic is IPv6. I am a netflix subscriber, but also an amazon prime member. I will say that if amazon would get off the dime and support IPv6, it would make a significant difference. Other than

Re: Carrier Grade NAT

2014-07-29 Thread Mark Andrews
In message , Gary Buhrmaster writes: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 5:22 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: > > > > On Jul 29, 2014, at 4:13 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > . > >> Add to that over half your traffic will switch to IPv6 as long as > >> the customer has a IPv6 capable CPE. That's a lot less loggin

Re: Carrier Grade NAT

2014-07-29 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 5:22 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: > > On Jul 29, 2014, at 4:13 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: . >> Add to that over half your traffic will switch to IPv6 as long as >> the customer has a IPv6 capable CPE. That's a lot less logging you >> need to do from day 1. > > That would be ni

Re: Carrier Grade NAT

2014-07-29 Thread Julien Goodwin
On 29/07/14 22:22, Owen DeLong wrote: > On Jul 29, 2014, at 4:13 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: >> In message <20140729225352.go7...@hezmatt.org>, Matt Palmer writes: >>> On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 09:28:53AM +1200, Tony Wicks wrote: 2. IPv6 is nice (dual stack) but the internet without IPv4 is not a v

Re: Carrier Grade NAT

2014-07-29 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jul 29, 2014, at 4:13 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > > In message <20140729225352.go7...@hezmatt.org>, Matt Palmer writes: >> On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 09:28:53AM +1200, Tony Wicks wrote: >>> 2. IPv6 is nice (dual stack) but the internet without IPv4 is not a viable >>> thing, perhaps one day, but

Re: Carrier Grade NAT

2014-07-29 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jul 29, 2014, at 10:59 AM, William Herrin wrote: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: >> As an ISP customer, would you really accept not >> being supplied a globally unique address? Really? > > Hi Owen, > > I wouldn't, but outside of the folks I know in this forum, few wo

Re: Carrier Grade NAT

2014-07-29 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <004601cfab84$19ef4e20$4dcdea60$@wicks.co.nz>, "Tony Wicks" writes: > >>5. NAT translation timeouts are important, XBOX and PlayStation suck. > > > >At least Xbox ONE prefers IPv6. > >PS4 can, it just doesn't yet. > >Maybe Kiwis don't play enough games for Sony to care? > > Few CPE rou

RE: Carrier Grade NAT

2014-07-29 Thread Tony Wicks
>>3. 99.99% of customers don't notice they are transiting CGNAT, it just >>works. Surprised it's that high. So was I to be honest, but in general "It Just Works". >>4. You need to log NAT translations for LI purposes. (IP >>source/destination, Port source/destination, time) Surprisingly this

Re: Carrier Grade NAT

2014-07-29 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <20140729225352.go7...@hezmatt.org>, Matt Palmer writes: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 09:28:53AM +1200, Tony Wicks wrote: > > 2. IPv6 is nice (dual stack) but the internet without IPv4 is not a viable > > thing, perhaps one day, but certainly not today (I really hate clueless > > people wh

Re: Carrier Grade NAT

2014-07-29 Thread Robert Drake
On 7/29/2014 6:42 PM, Matt Palmer wrote: Of course, getting anything back*out* of that again in any sort of reasonable timeframe would be... optimistic. I suppose if you're storing it all in hadoop you can map/reduce your way out of trouble, but that's going to mean a lot of equipment sitting

Re: Carrier Grade NAT

2014-07-29 Thread Matt Palmer
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 09:28:53AM +1200, Tony Wicks wrote: > 2. IPv6 is nice (dual stack) but the internet without IPv4 is not a viable > thing, perhaps one day, but certainly not today (I really hate clueless > people who shout to the hills that IPv6 is the "solution" for today's > internet acces

Re: Carrier Grade NAT

2014-07-29 Thread Matt Palmer
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 06:19:31PM -0400, Lee Howard wrote: > Thanks for sharing your experience; it's very unusual to get the > perspective of an operator running CGN (on a broadband ISP; wireless has > always had it). > > On 7/29/14 5:28 PM, "Tony Wicks" wrote: > > >OK, as someone with experie

Re: Carrier Grade NAT

2014-07-29 Thread Lee Howard
Thanks for sharing your experience; it's very unusual to get the perspective of an operator running CGN (on a broadband ISP; wireless has always had it). On 7/29/14 5:28 PM, "Tony Wicks" wrote: >OK, as someone with experience running CGNAT to fixed broadband customers >in >general, here are a fe

Re: Carrier Grade NAT

2014-07-29 Thread Chris Boyd
On Jul 29, 2014, at 11:54 AM, wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 11:42:31 -0500, Chris Boyd said: > >> There's probably going to be some interesting legal fallout from that >> practice. As an ISP customer, I'd be furious to find out that my >> communications had been intercepted due to the bad beh

RE: Carrier Grade NAT

2014-07-29 Thread Tony Wicks
OK, as someone with experience running CGNAT to fixed broadband customers in general, here are a few answers to common questions. This is based on the setup I use which is CGNAT is done on the BNG (Cisco ASR1K6). 1. APNIC ran out of IPv4 a couple of years ago, so unless you want to pay USD $10+ pe

Re: Carrier Grade NAT

2014-07-29 Thread Matt Palmer
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 11:42:31AM -0500, Chris Boyd wrote: > On Jul 29, 2014, at 10:23 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > > If law enforcement comes along without port numbers then you give them a > > list of subscribers behind that IP at the time. Use port block > > allocation and keep track of the

Re: Carrier Grade NAT

2014-07-29 Thread Matt Palmer
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 12:54:57PM -0400, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 11:42:31 -0500, Chris Boyd said: > > > There's probably going to be some interesting legal fallout from that > > practice. As an ISP customer, I'd be furious to find out that my > > communications had b

Re: Carrier Grade NAT

2014-07-29 Thread Daniel Corbe
Colton Conor writes: > I searched carrier grade NAT in google, and A10 came up a lot. I thought they > just had good SEO going on, but it seems they have a good product as well! > Does A10 offer DHCP, DNS, and IPAM solutions as well? You really need all 4 to > handle carrier gra

Re: Carrier Grade NAT

2014-07-29 Thread Lee Howard
On 7/29/14 1:00 PM, "Robert Drake" wrote: > >On 7/29/2014 12:42 PM, Chris Boyd wrote: >> >> There's probably going to be some interesting legal fallout from that >>practice. As an ISP customer, I'd be furious to find out that my >>communications had been intercepted due to the bad behavior of

Re: Carrier Grade NAT

2014-07-29 Thread William Herrin
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: > As an ISP customer, would you really accept not >being supplied a globally unique address? Really? Hi Owen, I wouldn't, but outside of the folks I know in this forum, few would notice or care. So long as the ISP has an alternative available

Re: Carrier Grade NAT

2014-07-29 Thread John Levine
>As an ISP customer, would you really accept not being supplied a globally >unique address? Really? I would not. My local DSL provider does CGN. I switched to cable, but because it was faster, not because of the addressing. They would assign you a global static IP just by calling up and asking

Re: Carrier Grade NAT

2014-07-29 Thread Livingood, Jason
On 7/29/14, 12:57 PM, "Owen DeLong" wrote: >As an ISP customer, would you really accept not being supplied a globally >unique address? Really? I would not. Relevant: http://comcast6.net/images/files/revolt.jpg ;-) - Jason

Re: Carrier Grade NAT

2014-07-29 Thread Simon Perreault
Le 2014-07-29 13:19, Owen DeLong a écrit : Usually the window they give is ~ 3-5 seconds so they're pretty specific. This assumes that your log server and theirs are synchronized to an accurate time source within 3-5 seconds Not really, since usually port blocks are not immediately reallocat

Re: Carrier Grade NAT

2014-07-29 Thread excelsio
Not exactly what you probably want. But it´s actually working for me: http://ipv6netro.blogspot.de/2013/10/asamap-application-capability-in-wide.html http://enog.jp/~masakazu/vyatta/map/ Am 29.07.2014 16:45, schrieb Colton Conor: We are looking for recommendations for a carrier grade nat

Re: Carrier Grade NAT

2014-07-29 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jul 29, 2014, at 10:00 AM, Robert Drake wrote: > > On 7/29/2014 12:42 PM, Chris Boyd wrote: >> >> There's probably going to be some interesting legal fallout from that >> practice. As an ISP customer, I'd be furious to find out that my >> communications had been intercepted due to the ba

Re: Carrier Grade NAT

2014-07-29 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jul 29, 2014, at 10:10 AM, wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 09:57:54 -0700, Owen DeLong said: > >> As an ISP customer, would you really accept not being supplied a globally >> unique address? Really? I would not. > > Does the *other* provider in your area have a more liberal policy? None of

Re: Carrier Grade NAT

2014-07-29 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 09:57:54 -0700, Owen DeLong said: > As an ISP customer, would you really accept not being supplied a globally > unique address? Really? I would not. Does the *other* provider in your area have a more liberal policy? pgpFZVOkelKin.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Carrier Grade NAT

2014-07-29 Thread Robert Drake
On 7/29/2014 12:42 PM, Chris Boyd wrote: There's probably going to be some interesting legal fallout from that practice. As an ISP customer, I'd be furious to find out that my communications had been intercepted due to the bad behavior of another user. --Chris Usually, unless the judge is

Re: Carrier Grade NAT

2014-07-29 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jul 29, 2014, at 9:42 AM, Chris Boyd wrote: > > On Jul 29, 2014, at 10:23 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > >> If law enforcement comes along without port numbers then you give them a >> list of subscribers behind that IP at the time. Use port block allocation >> and keep track of the block

Re: Carrier Grade NAT

2014-07-29 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 11:42:31 -0500, Chris Boyd said: > There's probably going to be some interesting legal fallout from that > practice. As an ISP customer, I'd be furious to find out that my > communications had been intercepted due to the bad behavior of another user. See the various lawsuits

Re: Carrier Grade NAT

2014-07-29 Thread Chris Boyd
On Jul 29, 2014, at 10:23 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > If law enforcement comes along without port numbers then you give them a list > of subscribers behind that IP at the time. Use port block allocation and keep > track of the blocks to reduce logging load. There's probably going to be som

Re: Carrier Grade NAT

2014-07-29 Thread Colton Conor
I searched carrier grade NAT in google, and A10 came up a lot. I thought they just had good SEO going on, but it seems they have a good product as well! Does A10 offer DHCP, DNS, and IPAM solutions as well? You really need all 4 to handle carrier grade NAT on an access network right? On Tue, Jul

Re: Carrier Grade NAT

2014-07-29 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Tue, 29 Jul 2014, Colton Conor wrote: How do you keep track of copyright violations in a CGNAT solution if multiple customers are sharing the same public IP address? You ask them to provide port numbers. If they can't, then you can't identify a single subscriber. If law enforcement comes

Re: Carrier Grade NAT

2014-07-29 Thread Daniel Corbe
Colton Conor writes: > We are looking for recommendations for a carrier grade nat solution. Who is > the leaders in this space? How do carrier grade NAT platforms integrate > with DHCP and DNS solutions? How do you keep track of copyright violations > in a CGNAT solution if multip

Carrier Grade NAT

2014-07-29 Thread Colton Conor
We are looking for recommendations for a carrier grade nat solution. Who is the leaders in this space? How do carrier grade NAT platforms integrate with DHCP and DNS solutions? How do you keep track of copyright violations in a CGNAT solution if multiple customers are sharing the same public IP

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-28 Thread Neil J. McRae
On 18/01/2013 17:48, "Joe Maimon" wrote: >Suppose a provider fully deploys v6, they will still need CGN so long as >they have customers who want to access the v4 internet. Yes indeed, and the smart folks who thought (clearly didn't!) about how the best way to manage IPV6 and IPV4 in the acces

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-28 Thread Neil J. McRae
On 17/01/2013 14:29, "Brandon Ross" wrote: > >AND game developers who build IPv6 functionality into their products. Do >you hear us, PS3 and Xbox? > >Oscar, make sure you are telling your favorite game developers that they >need to support IPv6 if they want to avoid the NAT mess. Indeed, the

RE: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-23 Thread Voll, Toivo
> -Original Message- > From: Jeff Kell [mailto:jeff-k...@utc.edu] > Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2013 7:30 PM [snip] > Not sure about Vonage, but Skype, Xbox, and just about everything else > imaginable (other than hosting a server) works just fine over NAT with > default-deny inbound here,

RE: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-22 Thread Jamie Bowden
> From: valdis.kletni...@vt.edu [mailto:valdis.kletni...@vt.edu] > On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 09:03:31 -0500, William Herrin said: > > On the technical side, enterprises have been doing large-scale NAT > for > > more than a decade now without any doomsday consequences. CGN is not > > different. > Corp

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-19 Thread Jimmy Hess
On 1/18/13, David Swafford wrote: > There is no "suckerage" to V6. Really, it's not that hard. While > CGN is the reality, we need to keep focused on the ultimate goal -- a Correct. CGN may be part of a transition towards IPv6.Not all providers are necessarily going to see it that way.

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-19 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sat, 19 Jan 2013 06:26:53 +, Mike Jones said: > Potentially another source of IPv4 addresses - every content network > (/hosting provider/etc) that decides they don't want to give their > customers IPv6 reachability is a future bankrupt ISP with a load of > IPv4 to sell off :) The problem

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-19 Thread William Herrin
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 9:02 PM, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: > The killer app of the internet is called p2p. P2p is not an app, it's a technique for implementing an app. There are few apps which require p2p and can't be trivially redesigned not to. If you'll pardon me saying so (and even if you

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-18 Thread Mike Jones
On 19 January 2013 04:48, Doug Barton wrote: > No, because NAT-like solutions to perpetuate v4 only handle the client side > of the transaction. At some point there will not be any more v4 address to > assign/allocate to content provider networks. They have seen the writing on > the wall, and many

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-18 Thread Doug Barton
On 01/18/2013 02:07 PM, Jean-Francois Mezei wrote: OSI and X.400 never gained much of a foothole and the millenium generation probably never heard of them. Is it possible that the same fate awaits IPv6 ? There is pressure to go to IPv6, but if solutions are found for IPv4 which are simpler and

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-18 Thread David Swafford
There is no "suckerage" to V6. Really, it's not that hard. While CGN is the reality, we need to keep focused on the ultimate goal -- a single long term solution. Imagine a day where there is no dual stack, no IPv4, and no more band-aids. It will be amazing. david. On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 9:

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-18 Thread Cameron Byrne
evitable, >> and only a test at this stage." >> >> http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/01/16/1417244/uk-isp-plusnet-testing-carrier-grade-nat-instead-of-ipv6 >> >> I'm only here to bring you the news. So don't complain to me... > > It is obvious that implementin

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-18 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
#x27;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." > > http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/01/16/1417244/uk-isp-plusnet-test

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-18 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 18 January 2013 14:00, William Herrin wrote: > On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Jean-Francois Mezei > wrote: >> Should NAT become prevalent and prevent innovation because of its >> limitations, this means that innovation will happen only with IPv6 which >> means the next "must have" viral appl

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-18 Thread Jean-Francois Mezei
On 13-01-18 17:00, William Herrin wrote: > Odds of a killer app where one router can't be replaced with a > specialty relay while maintaining the intended function: not bloody > likely. Back in the late 1980s, large computer manufacturers such as Digital, HP, IBM were pressured to adopt the futur

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-18 Thread William Herrin
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Jean-Francois Mezei wrote: > Should NAT become prevalent and prevent innovation because of its > limitations, this means that innovation will happen only with IPv6 which > means the next "must have" viral applications will require IPv6 and this > may spur the move

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-18 Thread William Herrin
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Lee Howard wrote: > Years ago, I asked, "Why are we stuck with NAT?" I still ask that. I > believe that the reason we're stuck with it is that so many of us believe > we're stuck with it--we're resigned to failure, so we don't do anything > about it. Hi Lee, We

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-18 Thread Jean-Francois Mezei
Should NAT become prevalent and prevent innovation because of its limitations, this means that innovation will happen only with IPv6 which means the next "must have" viral applications will require IPv6 and this may spur the move away from an IPv4 that has been crippled by NAT everywhere.

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-18 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 09:03:31 -0500, William Herrin said: > On the technical side, enterprises have been doing large-scale NAT for > more than a decade now without any doomsday consequences. CGN is not > different. Corporate enterprises have been pushing GPO to the desktop for more than a decade a

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-18 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:21:28 -0500, William Herrin said: > Then it's a firewall that mildly enhances protection by obstructing > 90% of the port scanning attacks which happen against your computer. > It's a free country so you're welcome to believe that the presence or > absence of NAT has no impa

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-18 Thread Lee Howard
On 1/18/13 1:03 PM, "Joe Maimon" wrote: > > >Lee Howard wrote: > >> If an ISP is so close to running out of addresses that they need CGN, >> let's say they have 1 year of addresses remaining. Given how many ports >> apps use, recommendations are running to 10:1 user:address (but I could >> wel

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-18 Thread Lee Howard
On 1/18/13 12:48 PM, "Joe Maimon" wrote: > > >Lee Howard wrote: > >> You are welcome to deploy it if you choose to. >> Part of the reason I'm arguing against it is that if everyone deploys >>it, >> then everyone has to deploy it. If it is seen as an alternative to IPv6 >> by some, then others'

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-18 Thread Owen DeLong
Sent from my iPad On Jan 18, 2013, at 8:06 AM, William Herrin wrote: > On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Lee Howard wrote: >> On 1/17/13 6:21 PM, "William Herrin" wrote: >>> Then it's a firewall that mildly enhances protection by obstructing >>> 90% of the port scanning attacks which happen

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-18 Thread William Herrin
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Lee Howard wrote: > On 1/17/13 6:21 PM, "William Herrin" wrote: >>Then it's a firewall that mildly enhances protection by obstructing >>90% of the port scanning attacks which happen against your computer. >>It's a free country so you're welcome to believe that th

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-18 Thread Joe Maimon
Lee Howard wrote: If an ISP is so close to running out of addresses that they need CGN, let's say they have 1 year of addresses remaining. Given how many ports apps use, recommendations are running to 10:1 user:address (but I could well imagine that increasing to 50:1). That means that for e

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-18 Thread Owen DeLong
Sent from my iPad On Jan 18, 2013, at 7:48 AM, Joe Maimon wrote: > > > Lee Howard wrote: > >> You are welcome to deploy it if you choose to. >> Part of the reason I'm arguing against it is that if everyone deploys it, >> then everyone has to deploy it. If it is seen as an alternative to IP

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-18 Thread Owen DeLong
Sent from my iPad On Jan 18, 2013, at 5:57 AM, Joe Maimon wrote: > > > Owen DeLong wrote: > > >>> Clearly we have run out of trickery as multiple layers of NAT stumps even >>> the finest of our tricksters. >> >> Yes, we can dedicate thousands more developer hours to making yet more >> e

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-18 Thread Joe Maimon
Lee Howard wrote: You are welcome to deploy it if you choose to. Part of the reason I'm arguing against it is that if everyone deploys it, then everyone has to deploy it. If it is seen as an alternative to IPv6 by some, then others' deployment of IPv6 is made less useful: network effect. Als

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-18 Thread Owen DeLong
Sent from my iPad On Jan 18, 2013, at 4:03 AM, William Herrin wrote: > On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 11:15 PM, Constantine A. Murenin > wrote: >> IPv6 is obviously the solution, but I think CGN poses more >> technological and legal problems for the carriers as opposed to their >> clients or the gen

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-18 Thread Lee Howard
On 1/18/13 9:03 AM, "William Herrin" wrote: >On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 11:15 PM, Constantine A. Murenin > wrote: >> IPv6 is obviously the solution, but I think CGN poses more >> technological and legal problems for the carriers as opposed to their >> clients or the general-purpose non-server non-

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-18 Thread Lee Howard
On 1/17/13 6:21 PM, "William Herrin" wrote: >On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Lee Howard wrote: >> On 1/17/13 9:54 AM, "William Herrin" wrote: >>>On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 5:06 AM, . wrote: The people on this list have a influence in how the Internet run, hope somebody smart can fig

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-18 Thread Joe Maimon
Owen DeLong wrote: Clearly we have run out of trickery as multiple layers of NAT stumps even the finest of our tricksters. Yes, we can dedicate thousands more developer hours to making yet more extensions to code to work around yet more NAT and maybe make it sort of kind of work almost a

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-18 Thread Andre Tomt
(resending with nanog-approved address..) On 18. jan. 2013 01:30, Jeff Kell wrote: On 1/17/2013 6:50 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: Vonage will, in most cases fail through CGN as will Skype, Xbox-360, and many of the other IM clients. Not sure about Vonage, but Skype, Xbox, and just about everything

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-18 Thread Seth Mos
On 18-1-2013 15:03, William Herrin wrote: > On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 11:15 PM, Constantine A. Murenin > wrote: > On the technical side, enterprises have been doing large-scale NAT for > more than a decade now without any doomsday consequences. CGN is not > different. Well yeah, but everything is

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-18 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 11:15 PM, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: > IPv6 is obviously the solution, but I think CGN poses more > technological and legal problems for the carriers as opposed to their > clients or the general-purpose non-server non-p2p application > developers. Correct. The most sign

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-17 Thread Owen DeLong
> > I hate to break it to you guys more of the larger providers in NA are > implementing CGNAT in the next 6 to 18 months. Especially the mobile carriers. I have agreed long ago that mobile is the one place where CGN will go mostly unnoticed. First of all, most mobiles have been behind some f

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-17 Thread Owen DeLong
Sent from my iPad On Jan 17, 2013, at 6:58 PM, Joe Maimon wrote: > > > Owen DeLong wrote: > >> And this is where you run off the rails… You are assuming that NAT today >> and CGN provide similar functionality from an end-user perspective. > > To the extent that CGN functions like the cluel

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-17 Thread Joe Maimon
Owen DeLong wrote: And this is where you run off the rails… You are assuming that NAT today and CGN provide similar functionality from an end-user perspective. To the extent that CGN functions like the clueless linksys daisy-chain, then yes it does. The reality is that they do not. CGN is

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-17 Thread Brandon Ross
On Thu, 17 Jan 2013, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: I'm currently using NAT44, with at least two layers of 802.11g WiFi and 5 routers that seem to be doing independent NAT. Two of them are mine, then the other 3 are of the ISP, to whom I connect through 802.11g, and it generally works just f

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-17 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 17 January 2013 17:17, Owen DeLong wrote: > > On Jan 17, 2013, at 4:30 PM, Jeff Kell wrote: > >> On 1/17/2013 6:50 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: >>> Vonage will, in most cases fail through CGN as will Skype, Xbox-360, >>> and many of the other IM clients. >> >> Not sure about Vonage, but Skype, Xbox,

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-17 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jan 17, 2013, at 4:30 PM, Jeff Kell wrote: > On 1/17/2013 6:50 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: >> Vonage will, in most cases fail through CGN as will Skype, Xbox-360, >> and many of the other IM clients. > > Not sure about Vonage, but Skype, Xbox, and just about everything else > imaginable (other t

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-17 Thread Eric Tykwinski
I'll agree there, as developers have built in some tricks to work around NAT issues. But in reality doing away with NAT is a much better alternative for the long haul. So you are both right, but I'll side with Owen when doing network deployments as to ease my future headaches. Sent from my iP

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-17 Thread Jeff Kell
On 1/17/2013 6:50 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: > Vonage will, in most cases fail through CGN as will Skype, Xbox-360, > and many of the other IM clients. Not sure about Vonage, but Skype, Xbox, and just about everything else imaginable (other than hosting a server) works just fine over NAT with default

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-17 Thread Owen DeLong
> > Nevertheless, I'll be happy to document my assumptions and show you > where they lead. > > I assume that fewer than 1 in 10 eyeballs would find Internet service > behind a NAT unsatisfactory. Eyeballs are the consumers of content, > the modem, cable modem, residential DSL customers. And this

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-17 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Lee Howard wrote: > On 1/17/13 9:54 AM, "William Herrin" wrote: >>On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 5:06 AM, . wrote: >>> The people on this list have a influence in how the Internet run, hope >>> somebody smart can figure how we can avoid going there, because there >>> i

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-17 Thread Lee Howard
On 1/17/13 9:54 AM, "William Herrin" wrote: >On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 5:06 AM, . wrote: >> The people on this list have a influence in how the Internet run, hope >> somebody smart can figure how we can avoid going there, because there >> is frustrating and unfun. > >"Free network-based firewall

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-17 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 5:06 AM, . wrote: > The people on this list have a influence in how the Internet run, hope > somebody smart can figure how we can avoid going there, because there > is frustrating and unfun. "Free network-based firewall to be installed next month. OPT OUT HERE if you don't

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-17 Thread .
On 17 January 2013 15:29, Brandon Ross wrote: .. > AND game developers who build IPv6 functionality into their products. Do > you hear us, PS3 and Xbox? > > Oscar, make sure you are telling your favorite game developers that they > need to support IPv6 if they want to avoid the NAT mess. Ok. I w

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