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Re: runumbering (was: Re: IPv6: Past mistakes repeated?)

2000-04-25 17:50:03
At 1:53 PM -0700 4/25/00, Paul Francis wrote:
It seems to me that the decision to just use NATv6 rather than
do a site-wide runumber will be a very easy decision to make.

If that were the only issue, sure.  But there are tradeoffs: is the ease
of renumbering (which should be a relatively rare event) offered by a NAT
box worth all the ongoing costs incurred in using NAT in the first place
(more complicated, fragile network, more difficult problem diagnosis,
degraded performance, weakened security, opportunity costs of not being
able to run certain kinds of applications, and so on)?

Steve