[c-nsp] Best practice in configuring internet access services.

[Mark Tinka]

On Thursday 05 October 2006 13:12, Alex A. Pavlenko wrote:

> Thanks,
> but AFAIK 6500 does not support NAT.  NAT is nessesary feature to
> access the internet for customer computer, there is no way to get
> 30000+ real IP addresses :(

That's only a /17, which will take 32,766 users flat!

But then again, you probably don't intend to have all them connected 
at the same time.

> To perform NAT on the border router 
> with BGP is not a good idea i think. Where to NAT then? Who
> support rather big metro networks, how did you solve such
> problems? Thanks

I don't run this kind of network, but with any size in a decent 
backbone, I wouldn't recommend NAT - you'd be just complicating 
your life even further.

Mark.
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