I've been watching this thread for a few days. I fail to see your point, why are so many people against NAT? in an isp situation..
If what you want to offer your customer is a Intranet service, that is fine by me. Just don't mix this with a Internet service.
I admit it rasies an (slight) overhead and perhaps some latency but for the majority of your average ISP customers its ideal Why does Joe Blogs checking his mail and doing some surfing for books on amazon require a public ip address??? Its in the average users interest to
It will restrict the Internet services the user can access as discussed in previous emails.
be behind a nat'd firewall. it puts security in our hands and takes the emphasis away from the user.
You are going down a dangerous path if you want to take responsibility for your consumers computer security.
IP6 will hopefully be the solution to address depletion, lets just hope they allocate them properly from the outset this time :-)
Hopefully something will come along. But if there is nothing driving it we will never get there, instead we will be giving IPv4 intensive care until it's to late to think about something else. - kurtis -
Just my Monday morning 2 cents worth
Graham
In time, this must and will prove detrimental to all those involved. Sadly, many ISPs consider this type of service a valid offering to un-suspecting customers.
It may work for now, but it's not anything like the real Internet. And access customers are increasingly becoming aware of this.
With regards to running out of IPv4 address space, who cares. Let's run out of them, and spawn a public discussion of why people are not focusing on IPv6 development and deployment.
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