[j-nsp] Going Juniper

[mike+jnsp at willitsonline.com]

On 04/13/2018 02:30 PM, borss at pobox.com wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Apr 2018, mike+jnsp at willitsonline.com wrote:
>
>> Id even like to do cgnat for up to 5000 users but not sure if a
>> single box setup would be wise.
>
> I'm curious why you and other service providers are interested in
> CGNAT when IPv4 addresses are still relatively cheap to buy.  In many
> cases, even the hard costs of CGNAT are less thant what the needed
> IPv4 addresses cost, let alone the large operational costs of
> supporting users behind NATS, so I'm guessing your motivations aren't
> about cost, is that right?
>
Cheap... hmm... $5 - $10/each is not cheap, but at that level, nat is
like printing money. Now, if someone had a /20 for closer to $1/ea,
maybe... but what I know of that market is, forget it.