Re: Large ISPs doing NAT?

2002-05-02 Thread Peter Bierman
At 11:34 AM -0700 5/2/02, Scott Francis wrote: >> And what if I want to invent the next big thing? A game, that people play >> in real time, with their palm-sized gizmo. What if that game can't be made >> scalable unless those devices have real IPs? What if that game is the >> catalyst that cause

RE: Large ISPs doing NAT?

2002-05-02 Thread Peter Bierman
At 11:15 AM +0200 5/2/02, Daniska Tomas wrote: > >no eye-shutting. it's just about considering HOW MANY (or WHAT PART) of >your users will need the 'full' service. if you have 95% of bfu's with >web+mail phones or pda's then nat is completely ok for them. and those 5% >(if so many ever) phreaks -

Re: Large ISPs doing NAT?

2002-05-02 Thread Peter Bierman
At 1:20 AM -0700 5/2/02, Scott Francis wrote: >On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 04:07:34PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >> >> You've got to be kidding. Do you think it's clear to the average consumer >> buying a GPRS phone what NAT is, and why they might or might not want it? > >The average customer buy

Re: Large ISPs doing NAT?

2002-05-01 Thread Peter Bierman
hat might sound attractive to the bean counters, but think of the customers you might never get in the first place. Also, I don't see how deploying NAT could be a cost savings over requesting real IP space. -pmb -- Ring around the Internet, | Peter Bierman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Packet with a bit not set | http://www.sfgoth.com/pmb/ SYN ACK SYN ACK, |"Nobody realizes that some people expend We all go down. -A. Stern | tremendous energy merely to be normal."-Al Camus