90% of our customers all use private address space. We only give out real address space to customers that have servers that need to be visible. We run NAT on several customer facing routers. Cool stuff we can do is setup PPTP VPNs on the same router to give people "access from home" to their LAN. Same with L2TP/ILEC DSL. Problems include: We have a big nat pool on each router. If some twerp customer gets infected with some windoze crap, tracking it down can be a bit more work. Until recently, the IOS could not take huge volumes of NAT without tossing it's cookies from time to time. We have been toying around with VRFs & NAT which was recently introduced in the IOS, and it appears that in a NAT situation, the VRFs "leak" between each other, which scares the crap out of me. We are going to wait for a couple of revisions of the IOS before looking into that again. Dan. "Christopher J. Wolff" wrote:
Hello,
I would like to know if any service providers have built their access networks out using private IP space. It certainly would benefit the global IP pool but it may adversely affect users with special applications. At any rate, it sounds like good fodder for a debate.
Regards, Christopher J. Wolff, VP CIO Broadband Laboratories, Inc. http://www.bblabs.com