Re: Policy Statement on Address Space Allocations

[Paul Ferguson <pferguso () cisco com>]

Hocus Pocus.

A NAT solves this problem. :-)

- paul


At 08:12 AM 2/5/96 -0700, Tan Chang Hu wrote:

> > If you have a class B and use a firewall, then a /27 should be more
> > than is needed on the global Internet and they should use an address
> > from RFC1597 internally and return the /16.
> >
> > Hank
> Hank,
>       Depending on the firewall design, hosts located behind firewalls
> can conceivably access the Internet directly for certain services and in
> this case unique addresses are required. Your assumption would be valid
> when all traffic for that site is handled by proxy servers.
>
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