[114268] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Maimon)
Tue May 5 08:59:01 2009
Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 08:58:41 -0400
From: Joe Maimon <jmaimon@ttec.com>
To: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
In-Reply-To: <200905041139.n44BdFYA093271@aurora.sol.net>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Joe Greco wrote:
>> Forwarding these requests up to the ISP's router and having several
>> PDs per end customer is in my opinion the best way to go.
>
> How is it the ISP's router is able to handle this? Be specific.
I view with suspicion the notion that an ISP is going to take addressing
direction from their customers, willy-nilly.
>
> Now explain why that can't be made to work at the CPE level.
Home devices chain with NAT because that is the scheme most likely to
work well enough by default 99% of the time out of the box, without
requiring ANY upstream cooperation.
Home devices that work out of the box for the common usage scenarios
generate profit, those that dont generate loss.
Joe
