[156504] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jo Rhett)
Wed Sep 19 01:11:02 2012
From: Jo Rhett <jrhett@netconsonance.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAN3um4zmT2L8uMMwQTDq1coxjXOyvgdQfVtMPGwG2tTmf87frQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 22:06:49 -0700
To: Mike Hale <eyeronic.design@gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sep 18, 2012, at 9:49 PM, Mike Hale wrote:
> So...why do you need publicly routable IP addresses if they aren't
> publicly routable?
Because you have private connectivity with other companies and you need =
guaranteed unique IP space. No, really, you can't implement NAT for =
every possible scenario and even if you could you'd need publicy =
routable space to NAT it to, or you run into the same collisions.
I have worked at companies that have in excess of 4k private =
interconnections with their clients. Unique IP space is the only way to =
make this work.
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Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : net philanthropy to improve open source and internet =
projects.
