Hocus Pocus. A NAT solves this problem. :-) - paul At 08:12 AM 2/5/96 -0700, Tan Chang Hu wrote:
If you have a class B and use a firewall, then a /27 should be more than is needed on the global Internet and they should use an address from RFC1597 internally and return the /16.
Hank
Hank, Depending on the firewall design, hosts located behind firewalls can conceivably access the Internet directly for certain services and in this case unique addresses are required. Your assumption would be valid when all traffic for that site is handled by proxy servers.
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