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Re: NOC servers with public/private ip address

  • From: Jeff Gehlbach
  • Date: Wed Aug 15 11:10:01 2001

On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 11:01:23AM -0400, [email protected] wrote:
> Whether to number your management network with a /24 out of RFC1918
> space, or a /2something out of your own address space, and how heavily
> firewalled/isolated to make it, will depend on your paranoia level and

Using a NAT in a NOC situation makes audit trails harder to maintain,
as all administrative connections to your network devices will appear
to come from (one of) the address(es) of the NAT device.

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Jeff Gehlbach, Concord Communications <[email protected]>
Senior Professional Services Consultant, Atlanta
ph. 678.265.6067  fax 770.384.0183