This one is easy. What you're suggesting would require thousands of servers to be deployed. And then add the server management cost to that, and it would easily be the most expensive solution - but a long way. NAT breaks lots of protocols, and makes others more difficult to work reliably. It is going to generate more help desk calls than something which doesn't use NAT. This only leaves IPv6 as the cheapest option. -----Original Message----- From: Nathan Ward [mailto:nznog(a)daork.net] Sent: Saturday, 17 February 2007 11:01 a.m. To: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: [nznog] [Fwd: [pacnog] IPv4 exhaustion discussionsin AsiaPacific region] On 17/02/2007, at 3:01 AM, Joe Abley wrote:
It's an interesting problem, though. If you ran an enterprise with 23 million employees, and an ever increasing number of them needed a permanent connection to the Internet, what would you do? On that scale, and given a certain amount of centralised control of content and infrastructure, what looks more expensive? NAT or IPv6?
End-to-end IP connectivity is so passe. I'd give them proxy servers for HTTP, and servers per network for SMTP/POP3/IMAP etc. (DNS intentionally left off - why do end users need it at this point?). Forget about SIP NAT and all that similar trash - have it talk to network local SBCs (or similar). They probably don't /really/ need to exchange IP with people outside their network, most will only care that they can browse [local auction site]. I suspect such an approach would suit [country] well, infact. Maybe [vendor H] should go in to the proxy server market. It wouldn't be hard, [vendor N] proxy servers are little more than flashed up PCs - not hard to copy^Wduplicate^Wtake inspiration from. So, now which is more expensive? NAT, IPv6, or Proxying/local servers? Consider that many organisations already run proxy servers for authentication reasons, and don't allow any end user IP outside their organisation.. -- Nathan Ward _______________________________________________ NZNOG mailing list NZNOG(a)list.waikato.ac.nz http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog