Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-28 Thread Neil J. McRae
On 17/01/2013 14:29, Brandon Ross br...@pobox.com wrote: AND game developers who build IPv6 functionality into their products. Do you hear us, PS3 and Xbox? Oscar, make sure you are telling your favorite game developers that they need to support IPv6 if they want to avoid the NAT mess.

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-28 Thread Neil J. McRae
On 18/01/2013 17:48, Joe Maimon jmai...@ttec.com wrote: Suppose a provider fully deploys v6, they will still need CGN so long as they have customers who want to access the v4 internet. Yes indeed, and the smart folks who thought (clearly didn't!) about how the best way to manage IPV6 and IPV4

RE: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-23 Thread Voll, Toivo
-Original Message- From: Jeff Kell [mailto:jeff-k...@utc.edu] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2013 7:30 PM [snip] Not sure about Vonage, but Skype, Xbox, and just about everything else imaginable (other than hosting a server) works just fine over NAT with default-deny inbound here, and

RE: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-22 Thread Jamie Bowden
From: valdis.kletni...@vt.edu [mailto:valdis.kletni...@vt.edu] On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 09:03:31 -0500, William Herrin said: On the technical side, enterprises have been doing large-scale NAT for more than a decade now without any doomsday consequences. CGN is not different. Corporate

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-19 Thread William Herrin
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 9:02 PM, Constantine A. Murenin muren...@gmail.com wrote: The killer app of the internet is called p2p. P2p is not an app, it's a technique for implementing an app. There are few apps which require p2p and can't be trivially redesigned not to. If you'll pardon me saying

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-19 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sat, 19 Jan 2013 06:26:53 +, Mike Jones said: Potentially another source of IPv4 addresses - every content network (/hosting provider/etc) that decides they don't want to give their customers IPv6 reachability is a future bankrupt ISP with a load of IPv4 to sell off :) The problem is

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-19 Thread Jimmy Hess
On 1/18/13, David Swafford da...@davidswafford.com wrote: There is no suckerage to V6. Really, it's not that hard. While CGN is the reality, we need to keep focused on the ultimate goal -- a Correct. CGN may be part of a transition towards IPv6.Not all providers are necessarily going to

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-18 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 11:15 PM, Constantine A. Murenin muren...@gmail.com wrote: IPv6 is obviously the solution, but I think CGN poses more technological and legal problems for the carriers as opposed to their clients or the general-purpose non-server non-p2p application developers.

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-18 Thread Seth Mos
On 18-1-2013 15:03, William Herrin wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 11:15 PM, Constantine A. Murenin muren...@gmail.com wrote: On the technical side, enterprises have been doing large-scale NAT for more than a decade now without any doomsday consequences. CGN is not different. Well yeah, but

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-18 Thread Andre Tomt
(resending with nanog-approved address..) On 18. jan. 2013 01:30, Jeff Kell wrote: On 1/17/2013 6:50 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: Vonage will, in most cases fail through CGN as will Skype, Xbox-360, and many of the other IM clients. Not sure about Vonage, but Skype, Xbox, and just about everything

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-18 Thread Joe Maimon
Owen DeLong wrote: Clearly we have run out of trickery as multiple layers of NAT stumps even the finest of our tricksters. Yes, we can dedicate thousands more developer hours to making yet more extensions to code to work around yet more NAT and maybe make it sort of kind of work almost

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-18 Thread Lee Howard
On 1/17/13 6:21 PM, William Herrin b...@herrin.us wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Lee Howard l...@asgard.org wrote: On 1/17/13 9:54 AM, William Herrin b...@herrin.us wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 5:06 AM, . oscar.vi...@gmail.com wrote: The people on this list have a influence in how

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-18 Thread Lee Howard
On 1/18/13 9:03 AM, William Herrin b...@herrin.us wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 11:15 PM, Constantine A. Murenin muren...@gmail.com wrote: IPv6 is obviously the solution, but I think CGN poses more technological and legal problems for the carriers as opposed to their clients or the

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-18 Thread Owen DeLong
Sent from my iPad On Jan 18, 2013, at 4:03 AM, William Herrin b...@herrin.us wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 11:15 PM, Constantine A. Murenin muren...@gmail.com wrote: IPv6 is obviously the solution, but I think CGN poses more technological and legal problems for the carriers as opposed to

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-18 Thread Joe Maimon
Lee Howard wrote: You are welcome to deploy it if you choose to. Part of the reason I'm arguing against it is that if everyone deploys it, then everyone has to deploy it. If it is seen as an alternative to IPv6 by some, then others' deployment of IPv6 is made less useful: network effect.

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-18 Thread Owen DeLong
Sent from my iPad On Jan 18, 2013, at 5:57 AM, Joe Maimon jmai...@ttec.com wrote: Owen DeLong wrote: Clearly we have run out of trickery as multiple layers of NAT stumps even the finest of our tricksters. Yes, we can dedicate thousands more developer hours to making yet more

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-18 Thread Owen DeLong
Sent from my iPad On Jan 18, 2013, at 7:48 AM, Joe Maimon jmai...@ttec.com wrote: Lee Howard wrote: You are welcome to deploy it if you choose to. Part of the reason I'm arguing against it is that if everyone deploys it, then everyone has to deploy it. If it is seen as an

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-18 Thread Joe Maimon
Lee Howard wrote: If an ISP is so close to running out of addresses that they need CGN, let's say they have 1 year of addresses remaining. Given how many ports apps use, recommendations are running to 10:1 user:address (but I could well imagine that increasing to 50:1). That means that for

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-18 Thread William Herrin
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Lee Howard l...@asgard.org wrote: On 1/17/13 6:21 PM, William Herrin b...@herrin.us wrote: Then it's a firewall that mildly enhances protection by obstructing 90% of the port scanning attacks which happen against your computer. It's a free country so you're

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-18 Thread Owen DeLong
Sent from my iPad On Jan 18, 2013, at 8:06 AM, William Herrin b...@herrin.us wrote: On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Lee Howard l...@asgard.org wrote: On 1/17/13 6:21 PM, William Herrin b...@herrin.us wrote: Then it's a firewall that mildly enhances protection by obstructing 90% of the

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-18 Thread Lee Howard
On 1/18/13 12:48 PM, Joe Maimon jmai...@ttec.com wrote: Lee Howard wrote: You are welcome to deploy it if you choose to. Part of the reason I'm arguing against it is that if everyone deploys it, then everyone has to deploy it. If it is seen as an alternative to IPv6 by some, then

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-18 Thread Lee Howard
On 1/18/13 1:03 PM, Joe Maimon jmai...@ttec.com wrote: Lee Howard wrote: If an ISP is so close to running out of addresses that they need CGN, let's say they have 1 year of addresses remaining. Given how many ports apps use, recommendations are running to 10:1 user:address (but I could

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-18 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:21:28 -0500, William Herrin said: Then it's a firewall that mildly enhances protection by obstructing 90% of the port scanning attacks which happen against your computer. It's a free country so you're welcome to believe that the presence or absence of NAT has no impact

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-18 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 09:03:31 -0500, William Herrin said: On the technical side, enterprises have been doing large-scale NAT for more than a decade now without any doomsday consequences. CGN is not different. Corporate enterprises have been pushing GPO to the desktop for more than a decade as

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-18 Thread Jean-Francois Mezei
Should NAT become prevalent and prevent innovation because of its limitations, this means that innovation will happen only with IPv6 which means the next must have viral applications will require IPv6 and this may spur the move away from an IPv4 that has been crippled by NAT everywhere.

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-18 Thread William Herrin
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Lee Howard l...@asgard.org wrote: Years ago, I asked, Why are we stuck with NAT? I still ask that. I believe that the reason we're stuck with it is that so many of us believe we're stuck with it--we're resigned to failure, so we don't do anything about it.

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-18 Thread William Herrin
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Jean-Francois Mezei jfmezei_na...@vaxination.ca wrote: Should NAT become prevalent and prevent innovation because of its limitations, this means that innovation will happen only with IPv6 which means the next must have viral applications will require IPv6 and

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-18 Thread Jean-Francois Mezei
On 13-01-18 17:00, William Herrin wrote: Odds of a killer app where one router can't be replaced with a specialty relay while maintaining the intended function: not bloody likely. Back in the late 1980s, large computer manufacturers such as Digital, HP, IBM were pressured to adopt the future

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-18 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 18 January 2013 14:00, William Herrin b...@herrin.us wrote: On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Jean-Francois Mezei jfmezei_na...@vaxination.ca wrote: Should NAT become prevalent and prevent innovation because of its limitations, this means that innovation will happen only with IPv6 which

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-18 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 16 January 2013 08:12, fredrik danerklint fredan-na...@fredan.se 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

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-18 Thread Cameron Byrne
Constantine, On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 6:56 PM, Constantine A. Murenin muren...@gmail.com wrote: On 16 January 2013 08:12, fredrik danerklint fredan-na...@fredan.se wrote: From the article: Faced with the shortage of IPv4 addresses and the failure of IPv6 to take off, British ISP PlusNet is

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-18 Thread David Swafford
There is no suckerage to V6. Really, it's not that hard. While CGN is the reality, we need to keep focused on the ultimate goal -- a single long term solution. Imagine a day where there is no dual stack, no IPv4, and no more band-aids. It will be amazing. david. On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-18 Thread Doug Barton
On 01/18/2013 02:07 PM, Jean-Francois Mezei wrote: OSI and X.400 never gained much of a foothole and the millenium generation probably never heard of them. Is it possible that the same fate awaits IPv6 ? There is pressure to go to IPv6, but if solutions are found for IPv4 which are simpler and

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-18 Thread Mike Jones
On 19 January 2013 04:48, Doug Barton do...@dougbarton.us wrote: No, because NAT-like solutions to perpetuate v4 only handle the client side of the transaction. At some point there will not be any more v4 address to assign/allocate to content provider networks. They have seen the writing on

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-17 Thread .
i am not network engineer, but I follow this list to be updated about important news that affect internet stability. NAT is already a problem for things like videogames. You want people to be able to host a multiplayer game, and have his friends to join the game. A free to play MMO may want to

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-17 Thread Mike Jones
On 17 January 2013 10:06, . oscar.vi...@gmail.com wrote: i am not network engineer, but I follow this list to be updated about important news that affect internet stability. NAT is already a problem for things like videogames. You want people to be able to host a multiplayer game, and have

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-17 Thread Brandon Ross
On Thu, 17 Jan 2013, Mike Jones wrote: If you follow this list then you should already know the answer, functional* IPv6 deployments. AND game developers who build IPv6 functionality into their products. Do you hear us, PS3 and Xbox? Oscar, make sure you are telling your favorite game

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-17 Thread .
On 17 January 2013 15:29, Brandon Ross br...@pobox.com wrote: .. AND game developers who build IPv6 functionality into their products. Do you hear us, PS3 and Xbox? Oscar, make sure you are telling your favorite game developers that they need to support IPv6 if they want to avoid the NAT

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-17 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 5:06 AM, . oscar.vi...@gmail.com wrote: The people on this list have a influence in how the Internet run, hope somebody smart can figure how we can avoid going there, because there is frustrating and unfun. Free network-based firewall to be installed next month. OPT OUT

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-17 Thread Lee Howard
On 1/17/13 9:54 AM, William Herrin b...@herrin.us wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 5:06 AM, . oscar.vi...@gmail.com wrote: The people on this list have a influence in how the Internet run, hope somebody smart can figure how we can avoid going there, because there is frustrating and unfun.

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-17 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Lee Howard l...@asgard.org wrote: On 1/17/13 9:54 AM, William Herrin b...@herrin.us wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 5:06 AM, . oscar.vi...@gmail.com wrote: The people on this list have a influence in how the Internet run, hope somebody smart can figure how we

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-17 Thread Owen DeLong
Nevertheless, I'll be happy to document my assumptions and show you where they lead. I assume that fewer than 1 in 10 eyeballs would find Internet service behind a NAT unsatisfactory. Eyeballs are the consumers of content, the modem, cable modem, residential DSL customers. And this is

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-17 Thread Jeff Kell
On 1/17/2013 6:50 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: Vonage will, in most cases fail through CGN as will Skype, Xbox-360, and many of the other IM clients. Not sure about Vonage, but Skype, Xbox, and just about everything else imaginable (other than hosting a server) works just fine over NAT with

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-17 Thread Eric Tykwinski
I'll agree there, as developers have built in some tricks to work around NAT issues. But in reality doing away with NAT is a much better alternative for the long haul. So you are both right, but I'll side with Owen when doing network deployments as to ease my future headaches. Sent from my

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-17 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jan 17, 2013, at 4:30 PM, Jeff Kell jeff-k...@utc.edu wrote: On 1/17/2013 6:50 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: Vonage will, in most cases fail through CGN as will Skype, Xbox-360, and many of the other IM clients. Not sure about Vonage, but Skype, Xbox, and just about everything else

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-17 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 17 January 2013 17:17, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: On Jan 17, 2013, at 4:30 PM, Jeff Kell jeff-k...@utc.edu wrote: On 1/17/2013 6:50 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: Vonage will, in most cases fail through CGN as will Skype, Xbox-360, and many of the other IM clients. Not sure about

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-17 Thread Brandon Ross
On Thu, 17 Jan 2013, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: I'm currently using NAT44, with at least two layers of 802.11g WiFi and 5 routers that seem to be doing independent NAT. Two of them are mine, then the other 3 are of the ISP, to whom I connect through 802.11g, and it generally works just

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-17 Thread Joe Maimon
Owen DeLong wrote: And this is where you run off the rails… You are assuming that NAT today and CGN provide similar functionality from an end-user perspective. To the extent that CGN functions like the clueless linksys daisy-chain, then yes it does. The reality is that they do not. CGN

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-17 Thread Owen DeLong
Sent from my iPad On Jan 17, 2013, at 6:58 PM, Joe Maimon jmai...@ttec.com wrote: Owen DeLong wrote: And this is where you run off the rails… You are assuming that NAT today and CGN provide similar functionality from an end-user perspective. To the extent that CGN functions like

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-17 Thread Owen DeLong
I hate to break it to you guys more of the larger providers in NA are implementing CGNAT in the next 6 to 18 months. Especially the mobile carriers. I have agreed long ago that mobile is the one place where CGN will go mostly unnoticed. First of all, most mobiles have been behind some

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-16 Thread Justin M. Streiner
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

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-16 Thread Daniel Ankers
On 16 January 2013 16:31, Justin M. Streiner strei...@cluebyfour.orgwrote: 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

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-16 Thread William Herrin
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Justin M. Streiner strei...@cluebyfour.org wrote: 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. Move along, nothing

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-16 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Wed, 16 Jan 2013, Daniel Ankers wrote: In other words, it makes sense to be able to support customers who won't move to IPv6 in the short-medium term, even though in the long term it's inevitable. I agree, IPv6 isn't an answer to we're out of IPv4 addresses right now. So CGNAT44 i

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-16 Thread fredrik danerklint
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. Move along, nothing to see here. Barring a few fanatics, everyone here has known for several years now

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-16 Thread William Herrin
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 12:09 PM, fredrik danerklint fredan-na...@fredan.se wrote: Barring a few fanatics, everyone here has known for several years now that CGN would be required for continuing IPv4 support regardless of the progress of IPv6. If you spin it right, it's a Free network-based

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-16 Thread fredrik danerklint
Even tough you have very good arguments, my suggestion would be to have a class A network (I got that right, right?) for all the users and only having 6rd as service on that network. ARIN and IETF cooperated last year to allocate 100.64.0.0/10 for CGN use. See RFC 6598. This makes it possible

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-16 Thread Sander Steffann
Hi, If I have calculated the netmasks right that would mean to set aside: 2001:0DB8:6440::/42 for the use of 6rd service: 2001:0DB8:6440:::/64 = 100.64.0.0 2001:0DB8:647F:::/64 = 100.127.255.255 You probably should add a few extra bits for subnetting behind the 6rd CPE.

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-16 Thread William Herrin
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 2:53 PM, fredrik danerklint fredan-na...@fredan.se wrote: ARIN and IETF cooperated last year to allocate 100.64.0.0/10 for CGN use. See RFC 6598. This makes it possible to implement a CGN while conflicting with neither the user's RFC1918 activity nor the general

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-16 Thread Stephen D. Strowes
On 16/01/2013 08:31, Justin M. Streiner wrote: 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

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-16 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 50f70524.4020...@fredan.se, fredrik danerklint writes: Even tough you have very good arguments, my suggestion would be to have a class A network (I got that right, right?) for all the users and only havi ng 6rd as service on that network. ARIN and IETF cooperated last year