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Re: Carrier Grade NAT
From: Daniel Corbe <corbe () corbe net>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 14:35:26 -0400
Colton Conor <colton.conor () gmail com> writes:
I searched carrier grade NAT in google, and A10 came up a lot. I thought they just had good SEO going on, but it seems they have a good product as well! Does A10 offer DHCP, DNS, and IPAM solutions as well? You really need all 4 to handle carrier grade NAT on an access network right?
They don't have an IPAM built in. IPAMs are usually a back office thing. It's a deeply personal choice usually made by the very same monkey in your organization responsible for managing IP allocations. You can toss IP pool management (in your case, DHCP) at your A10s, but I don't. You can also do some interesting things with DNS on the boxes if you have a software load that supports load balancing. But you don't need that for NAT. Nor is it wise to put all your eggs into one magical packet-routing basket. -Daniel
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- Carrier Grade NAT Colton Conor (Jul 29)
- Re: Carrier Grade NAT Daniel Corbe (Jul 29)
- Re: Carrier Grade NAT Colton Conor (Jul 29)
- Re: Carrier Grade NAT Daniel Corbe (Jul 29)
- Re: Carrier Grade NAT Colton Conor (Jul 29)
- Re: Carrier Grade NAT Mikael Abrahamsson (Jul 29)
- Re: Carrier Grade NAT Chris Boyd (Jul 29)
- Re: Carrier Grade NAT Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 29)
- Re: Carrier Grade NAT Matt Palmer (Jul 29)
- Re: Carrier Grade NAT Chris Boyd (Jul 29)
- Re: Carrier Grade NAT Owen DeLong (Jul 29)
- Re: Carrier Grade NAT Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 29)
- Re: Carrier Grade NAT Owen DeLong (Jul 29)
- Re: Carrier Grade NAT Chris Boyd (Jul 29)
- Re: Carrier Grade NAT Livingood, Jason (Jul 29)
- Re: Carrier Grade NAT John Levine (Jul 29)
- Re: Carrier Grade NAT Daniel Corbe (Jul 29)