There are things like looking at the customer base. 1) are they likely to need incoming connections ( This is mainly for businesses ) 2) are they likely to get a worm and have it start spamming ( I hate trying to track down a spammy machine behind NAT ... its not hard just annoying) 3) are they going to have problems with double NAT, the customers router will be doing nat also. Certain system do not handle that very nicely
Frankly I hate using Private IPs for customers at all, I also strongly dislike not doing DHCP unless the customer is paying for that static. Static IP addressing is a PITA if you have to renumber, obivously with privates that problem is largely gone. Depending on where you are doing your NAT, I would suggest if you go that route to do it at your Head End, not at your edge routers. That way you can implement one of the common IDS/IPS systems to find problem customers (virus, etc) . Not doing DHCP, if you plan on being profitable, imo, is also a major mistake. You will end up consuming 10+ minutes of your install techs and CSRs time per install. Ryan On Jan 28, 2008, at 3:37 PM, Ugo Bellavance wrote: > Tom DeReggi wrote: >> whether to give private or public address has nothing to do with >> cost. >> > > Oh, what are the thing to consider exactly? > > Regards, > > Ugo Bellavance > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
