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RE: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christian Kuhtz)
Fri Sep 1 15:49:11 2000

From: "Christian Kuhtz" <ck@arch.bellsouth.net>
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Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 15:45:51 -0400
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> Based on Cisco:
> http://www.cisco.com/warp/customer/701/60.html
>
> "As a result, Cisco IOS PAT [Port Address Translation - HN] supports about
> 4000 local addresses that can be mapped to the same global address."

And that exactly scales how at an ISP/NSP level with millions of subs?  Has
anyone here ever considered the ops effort required to make this work and keep
it working, nevermind the calls you'll receive into your call center to keep
all your customers working and happy?

--
Christian Kuhtz, Sr. Network Architect              Architecture, BellSouth.net
<ck@arch.bellsouth.net> -wk, <ck@gnu.org> -hm                       Atlanta, GA
                                                    "Speaking for myself only."



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