[183312] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Production-scale NAT64
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tore Anderson)
Thu Aug 27 00:53:55 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 06:53:46 +0200
From: Tore Anderson <tore@fud.no>
To: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.mu>
In-Reply-To: <55DE941F.90806@seacom.mu>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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Hi Mark,
* Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.mu>
> In our deployment, we do not offer customers private IPv4 addresses. I
> suppose we can afford to do this because a) we still have lots of
> public IPv4, b) we are not a mobile carrier. So any of our customers
> with IPv4 will never hit the NAT64 gateway.
>
> When we do run out of public IPv4 addresses (and cannot get anymore
> from AFRINIC), all new customers will be assigned IPv6 addresses.
Why wait until then?
Any particular reason why you cannot already today provide IPv6
addresses to your [new] customers in parallel with IPv4?
Tore
