[136202] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: quietly....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Tue Feb 1 18:21:39 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <CCB48703-E604-4C83-AD7F-CD68F2AE6D0D@sackheads.org>
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 15:15:22 -0800
To: John Payne <john@sackheads.org>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Feb 1, 2011, at 2:56 PM, John Payne wrote:
>=20
>=20
> On Feb 1, 2011, at 4:38 PM, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
>=20
>> NAT solves exactly one problem. It provides a way to reduce address =
consumption to work around a shortage of addresses.
>>=20
>> It does not solve any other problem(s).
>=20
>=20
> That's a bold statement. Especially as you said NAT and not PAT.
NAT, PAT, whatever... I'm willing to back it up.
Owen
