Re: Big Temporary Networks

[Måns Nilsson <mansaxel () besserwisser org>]

Subject: Re: Big Temporary Networks Date: Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 01:11:54PM -0500 Quoting Jimmy Hess (mysidia () gmail 
com):
> On 9/15/12, Masataka Ohta <mohta () necom830 hpcl titech ac jp> wrote: >
> Mans Nilsson wrote:
>
>  >> I am not suggesting that. I'm just trying to point out that there
> > > might be a bunch of assumptions that aren't as true anymore when a
> > > lot of client connections share both source and destination address,
> > > and perhaps also destination port. If this happens simultaneously when
> > > a large amount of other tcp connections are NATed through the same box,
> > > resource starvation will occur.
>
> Assumptions that are already broken in Enterprise networks where 100+
> users may share an IP

<snip LONG description of fragile b0rkendeness applied to a perfectly
working network without NAT just so that NAT can be used to break it
even more>

Warum einfach, wenn es auch kompliziert geht? 

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