Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

[Keith Moore <moore at cs.utk.edu>]

> However, we need to keep something else in mind, which Iljitsch's note 
> hints at.  If I'm an ISP trying to sell a low-end service to low-end 
> customers at a low  (but still profitable) price, I need to cut customer 
> support costs to the absolute minimum.  If someone calls up for help 
> with a configuration problem, that may be six month's of profits from 
> that customer eaten up in the cost of answering the call. 

I find myself wondering, don't they get support calls from customers 
having to deal with the problems caused by the NATs?

> For the community, there are elements of "you get what you pay for" in 
> this.  And, for the ISPs, unless we figure out ways to provide the same 
> level of support convenience with public addresses, we will certainly 
> see NATs with IPv6 as well as IPv4.

either that, or IPv6 will be seen as something that is "business use only".


Keith

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