leifj@xxxxxxxx (Leif Johansson) wrote on 27.11.04 in <41A85B71.1080304@xxxxxxxx>: > Jeroen Massar wrote: > > On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 10:11 +0100, Leif Johansson wrote: > > > >>>For somebody administering a network of 100 machines, the hassle cost of > >>>IP renumbering would be twenty times larger. Given this, how could > >>>anyone wonder why NAT is popular? > >> > >>Wrong. If you administer 100's or 1000s of machines you build or buy > >>a system for doing address management. Renumbering is only difficult > >>if your system is called vi :-) > > > > > > Wrong ;) Well at least, up to 1000 is probably doable. > > But what if you are talking about 100s or 1000s of organizations with > > each a 100 or 1000 machines. > > My site is 10k+ addresses. Seems easy enough to manage to me :-) "If you have servers on your segment, they get addresses from the X..Y pool. Otherwise, you use DHCP, or you get fired." Something like that? Seems a fairly obvious solution. MfG Kai _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf