[c-nsp] need good recommendation for isp gateway nat bgp pbr

Nick Hilliard nick at foobar.org
Fri May 27 10:58:44 EDT 2011


On 27/05/2011 15:31, Brian Roche wrote:
> Ha, well... since you've pretty much convinced me my network is poorly
> designed by using NAT at all, I realize that even though I don't own
> enough IPv4 for my existing NAT customers, I suppose I could obtain
> addresses from my upstream providers and use them for my residential
> customers.

That just makes your business contingent on a continued good relationship 
with the particular upstream provider that assigned you the addresses.  Not 
a good idea.

Get your own addresses off ARIN, while you can.  If you can demonstrate a 
legitimate requirement for them, they should be assigned.

Nick



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