[1835] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Policy Statement on Address Space Allocations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tan Chang Hu)
Mon Feb 5 10:19:54 1996
From: Tan Chang Hu <tchu@somnet.sandia.gov>
To: HANK@taunivm.tau.ac.il (Hank Nussbacher)
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 08:12:50 -0700 (MST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, iesg@isi.edu, bmanning@isi.edu
In-Reply-To: <199602040608.BAA19913@merit.edu> from "Hank Nussbacher" at Feb 4, 96 08:06:49 am
>
> If you have a class B and use a firewall, then a /27 should be more
> than is needed on the global Internet and they should use an address
> from RFC1597 internally and return the /16.
>
> Hank
>
Hank,
Depending on the firewall design, hosts located behind firewalls
can conceivably access the Internet directly for certain services and in
this case unique addresses are required. Your assumption would be valid
when all traffic for that site is handled by proxy servers.
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