Re: Reality (was RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.)

2006-04-14 Thread Eliot Lear
Michel Py wrote: That being said, I do acknowledge that larger companies such as global ISPs do have a problem with the RFC1918 space being too small. This brings the debate of what to do with class E, either make it extended private space or make it global unicast. I think we bite the

Re: Reality (was RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.)

2006-04-14 Thread Peter Dambier
Michel Py wrote: That being said, I do acknowledge that larger companies such as global ISPs do have a problem with the RFC1918 space being too small. This brings the debate of what to do with class E, either make it extended private space or make it global unicast. When develloping IASON,

Re: Reality (was RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.)

2006-04-14 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 14-apr-2006, at 15:52, Peter Dambier wrote: That being said, I do acknowledge that larger companies such as global ISPs do have a problem with the RFC1918 space being too small. This brings the debate of what to do with class E, either make it extended private space or make it global

RE: Reality (was RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.)

2006-04-14 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
real time inventory management Wow! I've heard all sorts of claims for what IPv6 will do/include, but I must say that's a new one It's like Wal-Mart approach: the inventory constantly moves, it never sits still on the shelf. IPv6 addressed RFID tags look promising. [EMAIL

Re: Reality (was RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.)

2006-04-13 Thread Brian E Carpenter
v | /\ +-+ / \ ++ | Upgrade |__/ ? \__| Give money | | To IPv6 | \/ | to Michel | +-+ \ / ++ \/ M. Tough call. Yes, it is. It's called long term strategic investment

RE: Reality (was RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.)

2006-04-13 Thread Michel Py
Brian, Michel Py wrote: v | /\ +-+ / \ ++ | Upgrade |__/ ? \__| Give money | | To IPv6 | \/ | to Michel | +-+ \ / ++ \/ M. Tough call. Brian E Carpenter wrote:

RE: Reality (was RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.)

2006-04-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If Boeing had rolled out IPv6 in 1993-1994 when Eric wrote RFC1687 it would not have done anything to their bottom line as of today and wasted my money. If Boeing had rolled out IPv6 in 1993-1994 by now they would have an efficient production and real time inventory management; would have saved

RE: Reality (was RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.)

2006-04-13 Thread Noel Chiappa
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] If Boeing had rolled out IPv6 in 1993-1994 by now they would have ... real time inventory management Wow! I've heard all sorts of claims for what IPv6 will do/include, but I must say that's a new one Noel

Re: Reality (was RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.)

2006-04-12 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 11-apr-2006, at 15:58, Brian E Carpenter wrote: However, geographic addressing could give us aggregation with provider independece. You'll have to produce the BGP4 table for a pretty compelling simulation model of a worldwide Internet with a hundred

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-04-12 Thread Cullen Jennings
On 4/11/06 12:33 AM, John Loughney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In practice, I've needed to power-cycle these NAT boxes every few weeks, to clear out the garbage. I'm curios to understand more of what you mean by this? Are you running out of ports? Do you have any ideas what is causing this? (I

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-04-12 Thread Peter Dambier
Cullen Jennings wrote: On 4/11/06 12:33 AM, John Loughney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In practice, I've needed to power-cycle these NAT boxes every few weeks, to clear out the garbage. I'm curios to understand more of what you mean by this? Are you running out of ports? Do you have any ideas

RE: Reality (was RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.)

2006-04-12 Thread Michel Py
Eric Fleischman wrote: that us end users will go to great lengths to avoid any costly network upgrade that does not contribute anything to our bottom line. Think about it: why would we spend tens of millions of dollars to get equivalent network connectivity to what we already have? It makes

Re: RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-04-11 Thread John Loughney
Lars-Erik, From: Michel Py [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unfortunately some protocol purity zealots still have to realize that Linksys, Netgear, Belkin and consorts don't sell NAT boxes because they think NAT is good, they sell NAT boxes because consumers want to buy them. I do not

Re: Reality (was RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.)

2006-04-11 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 11-apr-2006, at 4:39, Anthony G. Atkielski wrote: It is worth about the same as a postal address that comes naturally when they build a new house. In a similar way when a new device comes to existence it gets an address out of infinite universe of 0 and 1. Maybe in some part of the

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-04-11 Thread Peter Dambier
John Loughney wrote: Lars-Erik, From: Michel Py [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unfortunately some protocol purity zealots still have to realize that Linksys, Netgear, Belkin and consorts don't sell NAT boxes because they think NAT is good, they sell NAT boxes because consumers want to buy them.

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-04-11 Thread Jari Arkko
Peter Dambier wrote: Just for curiousity: The TI chipset AR7 is the core of a couple of boxes. The all run linux and you can telnet them. They can route. No need for NAT My box is an Eumex 300 IP from t-online.de It is the same as the Fritzbox from AVM. Netgear, Siemens, Linksys and

Re: Reality (was RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.)

2006-04-11 Thread Peter Sherbin
You know, you could assign IPv6 addresses in a strictly geographic way and you'd have more than enough for everyone, everywhere,with very simple routing. But of course that won't be done.In fact some people are doing this todaywithin their networks.IPv6 marveles ability to "address every

Re: Reality (was RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.)

2006-04-11 Thread Brian E Carpenter
... However, geographic addressing could give us aggregation with provider independece. If you examine European routes in the routing table of a router on the American west coast, you'll see that the vast majority of those routes point towards the same next hop. So if you could express an

RE: RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-04-11 Thread Michel Py
John Loughney wrote: We're over-analyzing things. I don't think so. The Internet is no longer this thing for researchers and geeks it used to be. Now it is a global commercial product. As long as we keep producing protocols designed by researchers and geeks for researchers and geeks with total

RE: Reality (was RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.)

2006-04-11 Thread Fleischman, Eric
PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Reality (was RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.) From: Tony Hain [EMAIL PROTECTED] The world needs the wake up call that reality is about to hit them in the face and they will need all the time there is left to develop a managed IPv6

Re: Reality (was RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.)

2006-04-10 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 10-apr-2006, at 7:43, Tony Hain wrote: Instead of dissecting the numbers into chunks that give you the answer you want, how about looking at the big picture? [...] The real issue is that Geoff's linear projections against the current .75 /8's per month going out from the RIRs to hit a

Re: Reality (was RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.)

2006-04-10 Thread Geoff Huston
The real issue is that Geoff's linear projections against the current .75 /8's per month going out from the RIRs to hit a 2012 date don't match the historical growth. I suppose I should respond here, particularly as the quote about using linear models is not a correct one. The projection

Re: Reality (was RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.)

2006-04-10 Thread Noel Chiappa
From: Tony Hain [EMAIL PROTECTED] The world needs the wake up call that reality is about to hit them in the face and they will need all the time there is left to develop a managed IPv6 deployment plan. If they don't start now they will be forced into a crash deployment

RE: Reality (was RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.)

2006-04-10 Thread Michel Py
Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: The problem is that nothing matches historical growth, because it contains elements that have proven resistant against modeling. That's the way I see it myself. Until that time, I'll continue to assume 2010 - 2015 with 2012 as the most likely moment for IPv4 to

Re: Reality (was RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.)

2006-04-10 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 10-apr-2006, at 16:35, Noel Chiappa wrote: Many years ago now, a funny thing happened on the way to complete exhaustion of the IPv4 address space (Version 1). Some clever people worked out this ugly hack, which the marketplace judged - despite its ugliness - to be a superior solution to

Re: Reality (was RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.)

2006-04-10 Thread Peter Dambier
Noel Chiappa wrote: Many years ago now, a funny thing happened on the way to complete exhaustion of the IPv4 address space (Version 1). Some clever people worked out this ugly hack, which the marketplace judged - despite its ugliness - to be a superior solution to the forklift upgrade to IPv6.

Re: Reality (was RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.)

2006-04-10 Thread John C Klensin
--On Monday, 10 April, 2006 19:31 +0200 Iljitsch van Beijnum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Everyone who thinks that regular users are going to forego IPv4 connectivity in favor of IPv6 connectivity as long as IPv4 still works to a remotely usable degree is a card carrying member of the

RE: Reality (was RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.)

2006-04-10 Thread Peter Sherbin
it certainly will be interesting to see what an IP address is really worth.It is worth about the same as a postal address that comes naturally when they build a new house.In a similar waywhen a new device comes to existence it gets an address out of infinite universe of 0 and 1. Theactual

Re: Reality (was RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.)

2006-04-10 Thread Mark Andrews
To make things worse site local IPv6 addresses were deprecated. So you dont have a chance to number your machines locally and play with IPv6 for learning. You have to get an official /64 network to run your site. But now you have Locally Assigned Local Addresses and if you do

RE: Reality (was RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.)

2006-04-10 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
From: Noel Chiappa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I have no idea exactly what it will be (maybe a free market in IPv4 addresses, plus layered NAT's, to name just one possibility), but there are a lot of clever people out there, and *once events force them to turn their attention to this

Re: Reality (was RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.)

2006-04-10 Thread Anthony G. Atkielski
Iljitsch van Beijnum writes: That's the popular view. In reality, people deployed NAT mostly for reasons that have little to do with the global IPv4 address depletion. They deployed it mainly because getting an IPv4 address costs money, and involves considerable red tape. Mainly because it

Re: Reality (was RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.)

2006-04-10 Thread Anthony G. Atkielski
John C Klensin writes: So, let's assume that I'm an ISP and (i) I discover that I've switched to IPv6 to avoid needing to use private addressing in my core network, (ii) I discover that it is now costing me more to support IPv4 customers (because they require protocol and address translation

Re: Reality (was RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.)

2006-04-10 Thread Anthony G. Atkielski
Peter Sherbin writes: It is worth about the same as a postal address that comes naturally when they build a new house. In a similar way when a new device comes to existence it gets an address out of infinite universe of 0 and 1. That would only be true if IP addresses were geographically

Reality (was RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.)

2006-04-09 Thread Tony Hain
AM To: Tony Hain Cc: 'Austin Schutz'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; iab@iab.org; 'Keith Moore'; ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them. On 29-mrt-2006, at 2:17, Tony Hain wrote: In the past 10 years, there have been several years where the growth of the growth was less

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-04-07 Thread nick . staff
Anthony G. Atkielski wrote: ATT used to charge for any telephone color other than black, even though the cost of producing a telephone was the same no matter what color it was. ATT also used to charge for additional private IP addresses. I remember one company had a bussiness package with

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-04-07 Thread Peter Sherbin
FWIW-(which isn't much), IMO people like NAT because it lets them do what they want without paying more or getting permission. Cause I think thats really all they want from any solution. ISP fees for additional addresses just leveraging an opportunity to extract a few more dollars. The

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-04-06 Thread Peter Dambier
Anthony G. Atkielski wrote: John Calcote writes: I'll just jump in here for a second and mention also that vendors offer what they have to, not what they can. They want to provide the most bang for the buck, so to speak. These companies don't offer the multiple-static-ip-address option today

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-04-06 Thread Anthony G. Atkielski
Peter Dambier writes: http://www.manitu.de/ They offer you: fixed IPv4 address with reverse lookup at 9.99 Euros per month. I don't live in Germany. The exception does not disprove the rule. ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org

RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-04-05 Thread Lars-Erik Jonsson \(LU/EAB\)
From: Michel Py [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unfortunately some protocol purity zealots still have to realize that Linksys, Netgear, Belkin and consorts don't sell NAT boxes because they think NAT is good, they sell NAT boxes because consumers want to buy them. I do not think consumers in

RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-04-05 Thread Michel Py
Lars, Michel Py wrote: Unfortunately some protocol purity zealots still have to realize that Linksys, Netgear, Belkin and consorts don't sell NAT boxes because they think NAT is good, they sell NAT boxes because consumers want to buy them. Lars-Erik Jonsson wrote: I do not think consumers

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-04-05 Thread Joe Abley
On 5-Apr-2006, at 11:09, Michel Py wrote: Your argument does not hold water. Do a survey of customers who have the advanced or pro package (with higher speed and multiple static IP addresses) and you will find that the very vast majority of them (if not all) use NAT anyway even though

RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-04-05 Thread Michel Py
Michel Py wrote: Your argument does not hold water. Do a survey of customers who have the advanced or pro package (with higher speed and multiple static IP addresses) and you will find that the very vast majority of them (if not all) use NAT anyway even though they have enough public

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-04-05 Thread Joe Abley
On 5-Apr-2006, at 12:16, Michel Py wrote: Of anywhere where ISPs offer a package with static IP addresses. I mean a survey of regular customers, not fellow IETFers or geek buddies. How many of them actually have multiple static IPs and how many are behind NAT nevertheless. Run your survey

RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-04-05 Thread John C Klensin
--On Wednesday, 05 April, 2006 08:09 -0700 Michel Py [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michel Py wrote: Unfortunately some protocol purity zealots still have to realize that Linksys, Netgear, Belkin and consorts don't sell NAT boxes because they think NAT is good, they sell NAT boxes because

RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-04-05 Thread Michel Py
John C Klensin wrote: It is simply not possible to configure those devices to support use of static public addresses for hosts on the LAN side. First, this is totally false, see below. Second, if you want to use public IPs on the LAN side you just have to plug your hosts directly in the back

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-04-05 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 5-apr-2006, at 17:09, Michel Py wrote: By far, the volume of traffic is peer-to-peer (mostly questionable in terms of copyright). All major P2P apps for the most widely used protocols (bittorrent, edonkey etc) cross NAT nicely, most have UPNP support (no configuration of the NAT box)

RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-04-05 Thread John C Klensin
--On Wednesday, 05 April, 2006 11:23 -0700 Michel Py [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John C Klensin wrote: It is simply not possible to configure those devices to support use of static public addresses for hosts on the LAN side. First, this is totally false, see below. Second, if you want to

RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-04-05 Thread John Calcote
-John Calcote ([EMAIL PROTECTED])Sr. Software EngineeerNovell, Inc. John C Klensin [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4/5/2006 10:43:36 am --On Wednesday, 05 April, 2006 08:09 -0700 Michel Py[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michel Py wrote: Unfortunately some protocol purity zealots still have to realize that

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-04-05 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 5-apr-2006, at 21:57, John C Klensin wrote: they all had an option to run with or without NAT. Many of them also have the option to have a bridge mode allowing the customer to provide their own router/firewall solution. It is that bridge mode that is critical. As I indicated above,

RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-04-05 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 11:23 AM -0700 4/5/06, Michel Py wrote: John C Klensin wrote: It is simply not possible to configure those devices to support use of static public addresses for hosts on the LAN side. First, this is totally false, see below. No, it is *partially* false, but unfortunately true in

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-04-05 Thread John C Klensin
--On Wednesday, 05 April, 2006 22:24 +0200 Iljitsch van Beijnum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5-apr-2006, at 21:57, John C Klensin wrote: they all had an option to run with or without NAT. Many of them also have the option to have a bridge mode allowing the customer to provide their own

RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-04-05 Thread Michel Py
John Calcote wrote: I'll just jump in here for a second and mention also that vendors offer what they have to, not what they can. They want to provide the most bang for the buck, so to speak. These companies don't offer the multiple-static-ip-address option today because most ISP's don't

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-04-05 Thread Anthony G. Atkielski
John Calcote writes: I'll just jump in here for a second and mention also that vendors offer what they have to, not what they can. They want to provide the most bang for the buck, so to speak. These companies don't offer the multiple-static-ip-address option today because most ISP's don't

RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-04-02 Thread Michel Py
Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: you can make it do IPv6 NAT. Simple client-server protocols such as HTTP worked without incident as expected. However, I also tried FTP, which really isn't that bad as NAT-breaking protocols go. It didn't work because the server saw an illegal EPRT request. In

RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-31 Thread Michel Py
Christian, What you wrote is doubly incorrect. First, you missed the context: Noel Chiappa wrote: Needless to say, the real-time taken for this process to complete - i.e. for routes to a particular destination to stabilize, after a topology change which affects some subset of them - is

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-30 Thread Eliot Lear
Why would a service provider give up skimming the cream with that (nearly free) extra cash that weirdos like us hand them for real IPv4 addresses? Eliot ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-30 Thread marcelo bagnulo braun
Hi Andrew, And people wonder why NATs proliferate... much of the world has no option but to live with them. This is a direct result of policy discouraging IPv4 address allocation. sorry for asking, but what policy are you referring to? RIR policy? Can you point out any RIRs policy that

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-30 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 30-mrt-2006, at 10:29, marcelo bagnulo braun wrote: And people wonder why NATs proliferate... much of the world has no option but to live with them. This is a direct result of policy discouraging IPv4 address allocation. sorry for asking, but what policy are you referring to? RIR

Re: 128 bits should be enough for everyone, was: IPv6 vs. Stupid NAT tricks: false dichotomy? (Was: Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.)

2006-03-30 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 30-mrt-2006, at 6:26, Anthony G. Atkielski wrote: We currently have 1/8th of the IPv6 address space set aside for global unicast purposes ... Do you know how many addresses that is? One eighth of 128 bits is a 125-bit address space, or 42,535,295,865,117,307,932,921,825,928,971,026,432

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-30 Thread Kurt Erik Lindqvist
On 28 mar 2006, at 18.00, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: From: Kurt Erik Lindqvist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] NAT is a dead end. If the Internet does not develop a way to obsolete NAT, the Internet will die. It will gradually be replaced by networks that are more-or-less IP based but

Re: 128 bits should be enough for everyone, was: IPv6 vs. Stupid NAT tricks: false dichotomy? (Was: Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.)

2006-03-30 Thread Tim Chown
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 01:36:18PM +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: The thing that is good about IPv6 is that once you get yourself a / 64, you can subdivide it yourself and still have four billion times the IPv4 address space. (But you'd be giving up the autoconfiguration

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-30 Thread Anthony G. Atkielski
Keith Moore writes: I find myself wondering, don't they get support calls from customers having to deal with the problems caused by the NATs? Sure, and the reply is I'm sorry, but we don't support multiple computers on residential accounts. ___

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-30 Thread Peter Dambier
Austin Schutz wrote: On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 01:00:44AM +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: 1996199719981999200020012002200320042005 2.7 1.2 1.6 1.2 2.1 2.4 1.9 2.4 3.4 4.5 (The numbers represent the number of addresses

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-30 Thread John C Klensin
--On Thursday, March 30, 2006 08:47 -0800 Peter Sherbin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If someone calls up for help with a configuration problem, that may be six month's of profits from that customer eaten up in the cost of answering the call. That is because the current Internet pricing has

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-30 Thread Keith Moore
I find myself wondering, don't they get support calls from customers having to deal with the problems caused by the NATs? Because they don't answer them. In the process of doing the work that led to RFC 4084, I reviewed the terms and conditions of service of a large number of ISPs in

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-30 Thread Austin Schutz
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 11:26:40PM +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: If that is indeed the case then the enhanced nat road for ipv6 begins to make much more sense, even in the nearer term. I remember someone saying something about enhanced NAT here a few days ago but I can't find it...

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-30 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake Keith Moore moore@cs.utk.edu Now of course this ISP does have a TC that prohibits running a server, but server is a pretty vague term, and you don't have to be running any kind of server to suffer from NAT brain-damage. My ISP has ingeniously defined a server as any application that

RE: PI space (was: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them)

2006-03-30 Thread Michel Py
Noel Chiappa wrote: Needless to say, the real-time taken for this process to complete - i.e. for routes to a particular destination to stabilize, after a topology change which affects some subset of them - is dominated by the speed-of-light transmission delays across the Internet fabric. You

RE: PI space (was: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them)

2006-03-30 Thread Noel Chiappa
From: Michel Py [EMAIL PROTECTED] Needless to say, the real-time taken for this process to complete - i.e. for routes to a particular destination to stabilize, after a topology change which affects some subset of them - is dominated by the speed-of-light transmission

RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-30 Thread Michel Py
Noel Chiappa wrote: If you think there aren't still stability issues, why don't you try getting rid of all the BGP dampening stuff, then? Have any major ISP's out there done that? Dampening is part of the protocol and has nothing to do with the speed of light. Removing it is akin to removing

RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-30 Thread Christian Huitema
Dampening is part of the protocol and has nothing to do with the speed of light. Well, not really. Assume a simplistic model of the Internet with M core routers (in the default free zone) and N leaf AS, i.e. networks that have their own non-aggregated prefix. Now, assume that each of the leaf

Re: IPv6 vs. Stupid NAT tricks: false dichotomy? (Was: Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.)

2006-03-29 Thread Scott Leibrand
Well, in the case of IPv6 we're currently playing in a sandbox 1/8 the size of the available address space. So if what you say is true, and we manage to use up an exponential resource in linear time, then we can change our approach and try again with the second 1/8 of the space, without having to

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-29 Thread Scott W Brim
On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 04:12:24PM -0500, Noel Chiappa allegedly wrote: locators are a lot easier to deal with if they're location-independent Huh? Did you mean identifiers are a lot easier to deal with if they're location-independent? I really was talking about

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-29 Thread Keith Moore
You didn't mean locators are a lot easier to deal with if the name has nothing to do with where the thing it names is, you meant locators are a lot easier to deal with if their meaning (i.e. the thing they are bound to) is the same no matter where you are when you evaluate them. This is a

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-29 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 29-mrt-2006, at 16:17, Keith Moore wrote: it would be okay if the only apps you needed to run were two-party apps. in other words, it's not just users and hosts that need addresses to be the same from everywhere in the network - apps need stable addressing so that a process on host A

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-29 Thread Keith Moore
it would be okay if the only apps you needed to run were two-party apps. in other words, it's not just users and hosts that need addresses to be the same from everywhere in the network - apps need stable addressing so that a process on host A can say to a process on host B, contact this

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-29 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 29-mrt-2006, at 16:43, Keith Moore wrote: it would be okay if the only apps you needed to run were two- party apps. in other words, it's not just users and hosts that need addresses to be the same from everywhere in the network - apps need stable addressing so that a process on host A

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-29 Thread Keith Moore
it would be okay if the only apps you needed to run were two-party apps. in other words, it's not just users and hosts that need addresses to be the same from everywhere in the network - apps need stable addressing so that a process on host A can say to a process on host B, contact this process

RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-29 Thread Michel Py
Jeroen Massar wrote: I guess you missed out on: http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv6-address-space I declined to co-author it, as a matter of fact. It started as GUSL (Globally Unique Site Locals), did you miss that season? Read the dark side stuff I will post later... Austin Schutz wrote:

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-29 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 29-mrt-2006, at 18:34, Keith Moore wrote: - DNS is often out of sync with reality Dynamic DNS updates are your friend. From an app developer's point-of-view, DDNS is worthless. DDNS is far from universally implemented, and when it is implemented, it's often implemented badly. DDNS can

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-29 Thread Keith Moore
Point made many times, and the proof is in the pudding: if they're using it so widely it means it works for them. Actually, no. The world is full of examples of practices and mechanisms that are widely adopted and entrenched that work very poorly. You only have to look at any day's

Why DNS sucks for referrals (was Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.)

2006-03-29 Thread Keith Moore
- DNS is often out of sync with reality Dynamic DNS updates are your friend. From an app developer's point-of-view, DDNS is worthless. DDNS is far from universally implemented, and when it is implemented, it's often implemented badly. DDNS can actually makes DNS a less reliable source of

Re: Why DNS sucks for referrals (was Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.)

2006-03-29 Thread Francois Menard
Are you saying that ENUM is a dead end? F. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 819 692 1383 On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Keith Moore wrote: - DNS is often out of sync with reality Dynamic DNS updates are your friend. From an app developer's point-of-view, DDNS is worthless. DDNS is far from universally

RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-29 Thread Michel Py
Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: ...including the RIR reserves which are at an all time high of nearly 400 million) Also, keep in mind that the RIRs are not the only ones to have reserves. The address space itself has reserves, class E for example. ISPs have reserves, and customer have reserves too

Re: Why DNS sucks for referrals (was Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.)

2006-03-29 Thread Peter Dambier
Francois Menard wrote: Are you saying that ENUM is a dead end? F. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 819 692 1383 ENUM is a dead born child. ENUM is supposed to be good for VoIP. Well, I do have VoIP but my VoIP does work allthough ENUM does not. My router could use ENUM - but which one should I ask,

PI space (was: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them)

2006-03-29 Thread Noel Chiappa
From: Michel Py [EMAIL PROTECTED] We aren't *ever* going to give everyone PI space (at least, PI space in whatever namespace the routers use to forward packets) ... Routing (i.e. path-finding) algorithms simply cannot cope with tracking 10^9 individual destinations (see

RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-29 Thread Dave Cridland
On Thu Mar 30 00:06:25 2006, JFC (Jefsey) Morfin wrote: Now, consider that in that city one does go by street numbers but by building names. As we did for a very long time and many still do. So our building is named by the City Registry Innovation House - and if a day it is scrapped and

RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-29 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 01:28 30/03/2006, Dave Cridland wrote: On Thu Mar 30 00:06:25 2006, JFC (Jefsey) Morfin wrote: Now, consider that in that city one does go by street numbers but by building names. As we did for a very long time and many still do. So our building is named by the City Registry Innovation

RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-29 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 20:46 29/03/2006, Michel Py wrote: Just to make it clear: I'm not in denial and v4 exhaustion is not FUD, but the Internet is not going to stop the day after we allocate the last bit of v4 space either. The issue is not so much when we will be prevented from doing what we currently do. It

Re: PI space (was: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them)

2006-03-29 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake Noel Chiappa [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Michel Py [EMAIL PROTECTED] We aren't *ever* going to give everyone PI space (at least, PI space in whatever namespace the routers use to forward packets) ... Routing (i.e. path-finding) algorithms simply cannot cope with

Re: 128 bits should be enough for everyone, was: IPv6 vs. Stupid NAT tricks: false dichotomy? (Was: Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.)

2006-03-29 Thread Anthony G. Atkielski
Iljitsch van Beijnum writes: So how big would you like addresses to be, then? It's not how big they are, it's how they are allocated. And they are allocated very poorly, even recklessly, which is why they run out so quickly. It's true that engineers always underestimate required capacity, but

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-29 Thread Andrew McGregor
On 29/03/2006, at 5:10 AM, Scott Leibrand wrote: On 03/28/06 at 7:00am +0200, Anthony G. Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Agreed, but they reduce the amount of money you must pay to your ISP each month by a factor of ten or more. Your ISP charges you 9 times as much for IPv4 addresses

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-28 Thread Tim Chown
Interesting discussion. Keith is hitting all the nails on the head. Phillip seems to suggest that consumers buy NATs out of choice. They don't have any choice. I surveyed my final years students last month. Just four have a static IPv4 allocation for their home network, and only one has more

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-28 Thread Artur Hecker
Today, 90% of the phones in the world are still analog. Including mine, in the capital of California and my buddies' in the heart of Silicon Valley. the (static) statement that 90% of phones are analog seems very wrong to me. according to newest ITU-D estimates, by the end of 2004,

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-28 Thread Kurt Erik Lindqvist
On 28 mar 2006, at 00.11, Keith Moore wrote: NAT is a done deal. It's well supported at network edges. It solves the addressing issue, which was what the market wanted. It voted for NAT with dollars and time. It is the long term solution - not because it is better, but because

RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-28 Thread Michel Py
Tim Chown wrote: If you deploy IPv6 NAT, you may as well stay with IPv4. Tim, You're the one who convinced me some three years ago that there will be IPv6 NAT no matter what, what's the message here? See also http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-v6ops-nap-02.txt Remember: Users

RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-28 Thread Jeroen Massar
[cc trimmed] On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 01:54 -0800, Michel Py wrote: People will still want to do NAT on IPv6. Yes, and since site-locals have been deprecated they will also hijack an unallocated block of addresses to use as private, same what happened prior to RFC 1597 for the very same

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-28 Thread Austin Schutz
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 11:35:21PM -0500, Keith Moore wrote: now if what you're saying is that we need a standard NAT extension protocol that does that, I might agree. though IMHO the easiest way to do that is to make the NAT boxes speak IPv6. Yes, I am saying we need this or

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-28 Thread Dave Cridland
On Tue Mar 28 11:33:27 2006, Austin Schutz wrote: The limitations of NAT you mention make little difference to most of the NAT users I am familiar with. These are typically end users or small organizations. They generally don't know what they are missing, and NAT works adequately well

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-28 Thread Brian E Carpenter
If you can't provide the functionality that the customers want your protocol purity comes down to 'you have to do it our way, oh and by the way we have no interest in listening to you'. which is why some of us wrote draft-ietf-v6ops-nap Brian

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