[125667] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Pooser)
Tue Apr 20 22:59:23 2010
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:58:33 -0500
From: Dave Pooser <dave.nanog@alfordmedia.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100421080821.7339acae@opy.nosense.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> Frankly, when you hear people strongly using the argument stateful
> firewalling == NAT, you start to wonder if they've ever seen a stateful
> firewall using public addresses.
I'd hazard a guess that the number of hosts behind NAT gateways is an order
of magnitude -- probably two-- greater than the number of hosts behind
stateful firewalls using public addresses. It's not that the latter don't
exist, it's that economies of scale make the NAT/PAT appliances more widely
used and thus more relevant to the discussion.
--
Dave Pooser, ACSA
Manager of Information Services
Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com
