16 Jan
2013
16 Jan
'13
11:31 a.m.
On Wed, 16 Jan 2013, fredrik danerklint wrote:
From the article:
"Faced with the shortage of IPv4 addresses and the failure of IPv6 to take off, British ISP PlusNet is testing carrier-grade network address translation CG-NAT, where potentially all the ISP's customers could be sharing one IP address, through a gateway. The move is controversial as it could make some Internet services fail, but PlusNet says it is inevitable, and only a test at this stage."
I would hope that PlusNet has valid, well-thought-out reasons for deploying CGN instead of IPv6. Not knowing those, I can only jugde their position on its face: foolish and short-sighted. To quote a NANOG veteran: "I encourage my competitors to do this" :) jms