[156306] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Big Temporary Networks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Masataka Ohta)
Fri Sep 14 08:23:45 2012
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 21:22:01 +0900
From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20120913203229.GR24232@besserwisser.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Måns Nilsson wrote:
> And get v6.
>
> Do not NAT. When all those people want to do social networking to the same
> furry BBS while also frequenting three social app sites simultaneously
> you are going to get Issues if you NAT. So don't.
Don't?
Considering that, ten years ago, some computers were still often
shared by thousands of people distinguished by their port numbers
and that, today, pseudo ISPs are using NAT, it is not only wrong
but also impossible to identify a user only by his IP address
without port numbers.
Masataka Ohta
