[159807] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jamie Bowden)
Tue Jan 22 08:07:50 2013
From: Jamie Bowden <jamie@photon.com>
To: "North American Network Operators' Group" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 13:07:27 +0000
In-Reply-To: <24991.1358538375@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu]
> On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 09:03:31 -0500, William Herrin said:
> > On the technical side, enterprises have been doing large-scale NAT
> for
> > more than a decade now without any doomsday consequences. CGN is not
> > different.
> Corporate enterprises have been pushing GPO to the desktop for more
> than a decade as well. Feel free to try to push GPO to Joe Sixpack's
> PC,
> let me know how that works out for you.
We don't even do NAT here. Our corporate parent has PI space that they've =
had since the Jurassic period of the internet and we mostly live on that (t=
here are spots of 1918 addresses, but not for NAT purposes, think temporary=
networks in lab spaces). Access to the internet at large is all via proxy=
, there is no direct way out.
Jamie
