[157753] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: p2p addresses for point-to-point connections with customers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alastair Johnson)
Tue Nov 6 17:44:50 2012
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2012 14:44:25 -0800
From: Alastair Johnson <aj@sneep.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <50991442.3090900@forthnetgroup.gr>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 11/6/2012 5:44 AM, Tassos Chatzithomaoglou wrote:
> Roland, how do you handle customer requests regarding the remote management of their devices?
> i.e. if the customer wants to do any kind of management (ssh, snmp) from outside his router, he must use our
> infrastructure address (which is configured on his router) as a destination.
> Generally, the customer might want to use this wan address for many other things which you shouldn't actually care,
> since it's his router.
Why would the customer not have a loopback interface configured on his
router with an accessible IP address? Relying on the WAN address is
arguably a poor choice for a number of reasons including renumbering
events and circuit outages.
