[c-nsp] Disable ARP

Antonio Querubin tony at lava.net
Fri Aug 25 13:26:37 EDT 2006


On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, [ISO-8859-1] Francois Corthésy wrote:

> Not to mention the waste of IPv4 space. Assigning a /30 per customer
> would have the guys at RIPE give you some pretty mean looks the next
> time you go to one of their meetings.

Are you sure this is actually policy and not someone's personal agenda at 
those meetings?  It borders on micro-management which doesn't sound like 
something an RIR should be getting involved in.

> I remember the last one I was at, they even implied the assigning fix IP
> addresses to end users (think ADSL/Cable) was no recommended and either
> translation or DHCP should be used.

An RIR actually recommending the use of PAT for 'always-on' customers? 
Hmmm...


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