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We hit half-million: The Cidr Report
On May 1, 2014, at 4:57 PM, Fred Baker (fred) <fred at cisco.com> wrote:
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> On May 1, 2014, at 4:10 PM, Jean-Francois Mezei <jfmezei_nanog at vaxination.ca> wrote:
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>> Pardon my ignorance here. But in a carrier-grade NAT implementation that
>> serves say 5000 users, when happens when someone from the outside tries
>> to connect to port 80 of the shared routable IP ?
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> More to the point, your trust boundary includes 5000 people. Do you know them all? Who maintains their systems and software? Do you trust them?
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> What happens if they approach you from behind the NAT?
Itâ??s unlikely that CGN changes this at allâ?¦ Most CGN deployments will be a second layer of horror on top of the existing horrors already present.
Owen