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Re: Large edu's doing NAT campus wide?


From: Roger Safian <r-safian () NORTHWESTERN EDU>
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:37:34 -0500

Conserving scarce address resources is the only reason to adopt NAT, in
my not-so-humble opinion.

While I agree with this in spirit, there are things like PCI that
require NAT.  If you're going to have to NAT portions of the network,
perhaps it's better to just NAT the whole thing.


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