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Re: Large ISPs doing NAT?

  • From: mike harrison
  • Date: Wed May 01 11:03:53 2002 
> > of unadministered, always-on boxes that aren't supposed to be running
> > inbound services in unrouted space would save all of us headaches.
> 
> That's almost a better justification for NAT than address-space conservation. ;)

Almost? I'd say it's hands down an EXCELLENT reason. In some configs
though, the NAT'd people can still see each other and cause problems, 
but it still cuts down the exposure.