On Aug 4, 2011 5:26 AM, "Simon Perreault" <[email protected]>
wrote:
>
> On 2011-08-03 16:44, Tetsuya Murakami wrote:
> >> So the 900G figure is valid *in theory*, but *in practice* we're
> >> stuck with a number of sessions roughly equal to the number of
> >> external ports available on the NAT.
> >
> > As I mentioned above, the number of NAT session can be greater than
> > the available port number in practice because the NAT function in
> > these operating systems has already supported to reuse a port number
> > which is used for another NAT session with the different destination.
>
> Yes, because these NATs are endpoint-dependent, which is forbidden by
> the BEHAVE RFCs.
>

It is still very usefull and will be deployed regardless.

I understand you need to keep your documents consistent, but stretching
those ipv4 addresses further is a network and business reality of today's
big nat and future big nat.

Cb

> > So, the 900G figure is valid today. In practice, there are another
> > limitation from the memory size for keeping all NAT session and so
> > the NAT function has a limitation of maximum number of NAT session.
> > But this is totally regardless of the port-range functionality.
>
> Agreed.
>
> 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

Reply via email to