[159681] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu Jan 17 20:22:49 2013
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <50F8978C.1080707@utc.edu>
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 17:17:48 -0800
To: Jeff Kell <jeff-kell@utc.edu>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jan 17, 2013, at 4:30 PM, Jeff Kell <jeff-kell@utc.edu> wrote:
> On 1/17/2013 6:50 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
>> Vonage will, in most cases fail through CGN as will Skype, Xbox-360,
>> and many of the other IM clients.=20
>=20
> Not sure about Vonage, but Skype, Xbox, and just about everything else
> imaginable (other than hosting a server) works just fine over NAT with
> default-deny inbound here, and we have several thousand students in =
the
> dorms that bang the heck out of those services. Most applications =
have
> adapted to the SOHO NATing router that is prevalent today on broadband
> internet. And if it didn't work, believe me, I'd hear about it :)
>=20
NAT yes.
NAT + NAT (NAT444 or CGN which is what we are talking about here), not =
so much.
Owen
