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Re: NAT444 or ?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Wed Sep 7 04:28:10 2011

Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 10:27:22 +0200
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Tore Anderson <tore.anderson@redpill-linpro.com>
In-Reply-To: <4E6727AF.4000605@redpill-linpro.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>,
 Arturo Servin <arturo.servin@gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

> In a typical DS-Lite deployment you won't be using NAT444. One of the
> key advantages of DS-Lite (and A+P, I believe) is that there's only one
> level of NAT between the end user and the public internet.

yep.  and in ds-lite that nat is in the core, so you talk to comcast's
lawyers when you need a new alg.  with a+p, the nat is under customer
control, and they just go to best buy to get the cpe that supports the
alg that they want.

randy


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