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Re: Allocation of IP Addresses

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Thu Mar 14 13:59:03 1996

Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 13:39:54 -0500
To: owen@DeLong.SJ.CA.US (Owen DeLong)
From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu

At 09:36 AM 3/14/96 -0800, Owen DeLong wrote:

>> 
>> Why not use net 10 and leave the NATs in?
>> 
>You can't possibly be serious here.  No way NATs scale to multihomed, and they
>don't speak BGP.  They aren't heavy-duty backbone routers.  They're designed
>for small to medium sized corporate LANs, not ISP's.
>

Owen, you're assuming that what is currently the case will continue to
hold true. 

- paul


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