[47263] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Large ISPs doing NAT?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eliot Lear)
Wed May 1 20:16:56 2002
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Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 17:15:50 -0700
From: Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com>
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Deepak Jain wrote:
> MY question is -- How do you know if a justification for _public_ space
> handling a large NAT'd pool is the proper size and not an over/under
> allocation based on the customer in question?
Why is the answer to this question any different than it has been since
BCP-12? The answer is that we don't, but we guard against the problem
with methods such as slow start allocations.
Eliot
