Re: Number of Firewall/NAT Users

[Lloyd Wood <l.wood at eim.surrey.ac.uk>]

On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Jon Crowcroft wrote:

> NAT is predicated at least partly on the observation that a lot of 
> internet users don't appear to need to be "always on" 
> (i.e. like temporal locality
> (not spatial locality) of telephone nets,
> there's a distribution of use and it means that we can get away with
> far less address allocated than users.....

That's what DHCP dynamic allocation is for.


>   I would suggest that if an ISP asks for address space based on a
> number of users but then uses NATs they are misrepresenting the
> number of users and should be given less address space:-)

and if they're using DHCP?

L.

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