Hi Ronaldo,
>
> 1. Move to IPv6 and solve the adressing issue once and for all. In the
> end you now you have to do that sooner or later.
This would be the best option...
>
> 2. Do not accept private addresses. They are not unique so they will
> not work with multiple networks administered by different admins.
I guess that you've set up a VPN connection between you and your
customer? Not that this of any concern but just the way how I would
connect to customers. But you will have to use NAT to translate the
customer's IP addresses to a range in your own (private) address
space. Maybe even NAT twice: use another IP address range over the
VPN tunnel.
>
> With nagios you could install a local server for each customer where
> the
> objects will have local addresses for the hosts. And let each local
> instance report to a global server. But then you must make sure that
> the
> hostnames will remain unique on a global level.
This is what we do (we monitor several customers) by adding @<customer>
to the hostname, e.g. d...@abc. We are in the process of setting up a
separate VM for each customer. This VM is either loaded in a "stepping
stone" server located at the customer or in our own (monitoring) DMZ.
Rationale behind this set up is separation between customers...
>
> It is for challenges like this that I think the whole the need for IPv6
> may finally sink in into the ICT community so we can get rid of all
> those stupid NAT constructs.
>
> (If you thought this was a tough one you aint seen nothing yet. )
True, but as long as there are customers out there that have IPv4...
HTH, cu l8r, Edgar.
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