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Re: Why people by NATs

2004-11-22 11:27:40


--On Monday, 22 November, 2004 08:33 -0800 Fred Baker
<fred(_at_)cisco(_dot_)com> wrote:

...
Yes, but be careful with that. What has happened at Linksys
and others is that they have come up with a simple
configuration that allows them to sell a pre-configured device
to a client, advertise a few features that clients like, and
sell them like hotcakes with little or no support costs. What
the customer is buying is not, in most cases, "uses private
addressing to separate your IP address space from that of your
ISP so that if you move you will not have to reconfigure
things." That may be what Linksys etc is selling, but what the
customer is buying is "plug it in and it will work." Any
configuration that gives the customer simplicity of
implementation by a non-expert in the technology will meet
their needs.

Fred, while I agree completely with this, we all need to
understand that it has another implication.   If the customer is
offered a snazzy new IPv6 device, using public address space,
that fails to offer "plug it in and it will work", then the
customer is unlikely to buy it.  The odds go down even further
if the customer is expected to become a network expert, or even
a junior apprentice amateur network expert, to configure the
thing.  And that situation is likely to exist, IMO, regardless
of what real or imagined advantages come from IPv6 and/or
public-accessible address space and/or NAT elimination.

    john


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