Cheap LSN/CGN/NAT444 Solution

Mon Jun 30 09:53:16 UTC 2014

>From experience (we ran out of IPv4 a long time ago in the APNIC region)
this is not needed, what is needed however is session timeouts. Xbox and
PlayStation are the most sensitive to session timeouts. 

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From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces at nanog.org] On Behalf Of Roland Dobbins
Sent: Monday, 30 June 2014 7:48 p.m.
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Subject: Re: Cheap LSN/CGN/NAT444 Solution

On Jun 30, 2014, at 1:37 PM, Robert Drake <rdrake at direcpath.com> wrote:

> Total PPS or bandwidth is the number you need rather than number of
customers.

Also, be sure you have S/RTBH or some other mechanism southbound of the NAT
for dealing with compromised/abusive hosts which can chew up the state-table
with SYN-floods and the like.

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