[136195] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: quietly....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Payne)
Tue Feb 1 17:57:51 2011
In-Reply-To: <0A77875D-59A4-422A-A5D4-116A0C5EE536@delong.com>
From: John Payne <john@sackheads.org>
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 17:56:59 -0500
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Feb 1, 2011, at 4:38 PM, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
> NAT solves exactly one problem. It provides a way to reduce address consum=
ption to work around a shortage of addresses.
>=20
> It does not solve any other problem(s).
That's a bold statement. Especially as you said NAT and not PAT.=20=