Re: p2p addresses for point-to-point connections with customers

On 11/6/2012 5:44 AM, Tassos Chatzithomaoglou wrote:

Roland, how do you handle customer requests regarding the remote management of their devices? i.e. if the customer wants to do any kind of management (ssh, snmp) from outside his router, he must use our infrastructure address (which is configured on his router) as a destination. Generally, the customer might want to use this wan address for many other things which you shouldn't actually care, since it's his router.

Why would the customer not have a loopback interface configured on his router with an accessible IP address? Relying on the WAN address is arguably a poor choice for a number of reasons including renumbering events and circuit outages.