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Re: Service providers that NAT their whole network?
From: Tom Vest <tvest () pch net>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 23:17:40 -0400
On Apr 19, 2005, at 10:57 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
One possible reason would be that quite often the people there are not very capable at bgp at all .. so someone who's selling them routers gives them a static route to their upstream, then they give their downstream customers a word doc with a template that assigns the downstreams yet another static route ...
I think (or at least I hope) that folks that fit your description are identified by the registries and routed to the education track before their applications are approved. I am not (entirely) naive -- and am quite pleased to have the opportunity to contribute to ongoing education efforts through APRICOT -- so I am sure that some share of allocated-but-never-routed ASNs could be explained away as you suggest. That said, the cases I am obliquely referring to are established, fully clue-embued enterprises -- some even service providers -- with competent engineers on staff. I.e., operators that applied for, met the criteria, and received a public ASN plus IP allocation from an RIR.
TV
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- Re: Service providers that NAT their whole network? Jay R. Ashworth (Apr 15)
- Re: Service providers that NAT their whole network? Jeff Kell (Apr 15)
- Re: Service providers that NAT their whole network? Chris Woodfield (Apr 22)
- Re: Service providers that NAT their whole network? John Payne (Apr 22)
- Re: Service providers that NAT their whole network? Owen DeLong (Apr 19)
- Re: Service providers that NAT their whole network? Tom Vest (Apr 19)
- Re: Service providers that NAT their whole network? Suresh Ramasubramanian (Apr 19)
- Re: Service providers that NAT their whole network? Tom Vest (Apr 19)
- Re: Service providers that NAT their whole network? Suresh Ramasubramanian (Apr 19)
- Re: Service providers that NAT their whole network? Tom Vest (Apr 19)