Indeed. And we keep forgetting an important point that most of us have been *just* fine with only 1000 (or 2000) ports since that's what most CPE/home routers in our homes had with NAT44, by default.
Cheers, Rajiv > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Simon Perreault > Sent: Monday, August 01, 2011 10:45 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Softwires] Clarification of the stateles/stateful discussion > > Jan Zorz @ go6.si wrote, on 08/01/2011 10:36 AM: > > Well, is short words, whatever number of ports you assign in port-set/range, > end > > user can exhaust them. > > The fact that most ISPs have been successfully operating with 65536 ports per > subscriber demonstrates that it is possible to statically provision > subscribers > with "enough" ports. > > Simon > -- > DTN made easy, lean, and smart --> http://postellation.viagenie.ca > NAT64/DNS64 open-source --> http://ecdysis.viagenie.ca > STUN/TURN server --> http://numb.viagenie.ca > _______________________________________________ > Softwires mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/softwires _______________________________________________ Softwires mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/softwires
