jb, i've seen this as a part of turnkey solution by one of gprs vendors. they made two service classes - generic (10.0.0.0/8-based with nat) and 'privileged' - with registered addresses. and it was not only a slideware but a real installation but then you have many other large-scale issues like access acceleration, content optimization etc... -- Tomas Daniska systems engineer Tronet Computer Networks Plynarenska 5, 829 75 Bratislava, Slovakia tel: +421 2 58224111, fax: +421 2 58224199 A transistor protected by a fast-acting fuse will protect the fuse by blowing first.
-----Original Message----- From: Beckmeyer [mailto:beck@pacbell.net] Sent: 29. aprÃla 2002 18:08 To: tme@multicasttech.com; nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Large ISPs doing NAT?
Marshall et al,
It's a lack of IP Address Space - and the numbers I gave - 10's of thousands are probably a bit on the small side - in short order it will be multiples of 100,000 IP addresses. To start with, I'm willing to think in terms of 10's of thousands spread over a handful of "POPs".
The application is GPRS (aka 2.5/3G cellular) and each Internet connected user or some major subset of them will likely wind up with an address on their mobile device.
- JB