Large ISPs doing NAT?
mike harrison
meuon at highertech.net
Wed May 1 05:32:28 UTC 2002
> On Monday, 2002-04-29 at 08:43 MST, Beckmeyer <beck at pacbell.net> wrote:
> > Is anybody here doing NAT for their customers?
Tony Rall:
> If you're NATing your customers you're no longer an ISP. You're a
> sort-of-tcp-service-provider (maybe a little udp too). NAT (PAT even more
Depends on scale and application. We have lots of customers
that we NAT, one way or another. And a lot more that we don't.
Some customers WANT to 'just see out' and they like all the 'weird stuff
turned off'. Sometimes it's a box at the customers end, sometimes
it's nat'd IP's on the dial-up/ISDN/FracT1/T1/Wireless connection itself.
Saying we are not an ISP because we do some NAT is a little harsh.
Giving the customer options and making things work (when done right,
and explained properly.... we have no sales droids) is good business
and I think good for the 'net. It gives the clueless (and sometimes
cluefull) just a little more isolation.
What is wrong is NAT'ing when you should not.
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