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Re: NAT Multihoming (was:Re: NANOG 40 agenda posted)


From: Paul Vixie <vixie () vix com>
Date: 02 Jun 2007 18:07:19 +0000


Cisco has a whitepaper entitled "Enabling Enterprise Multihoming with Cisco 
IOS NAT" that addresses this.  See 
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk648/tk361/technologies_white_paper09186a0080091c8a.shtml
as well as RFC2260.

see also <http://sa.vix.com/~vixie/proxynet.pdf>.

There are indeed a few thorny issues with this approach; the largest
issue is that all connectivity becomes DNS-dependent and raw IP addresses
(from both the inside and outside) become virtually useless.  Running
servers behind this scheme, while doable, is difficult.

and also much fun to watch, once you get it working.
-- 
Paul Vixie


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