> From: Keith Moore <moore@xxxxxxxxxx>
> if one of your constraints is scalability and the other is
> deployability, you generally want to optimize for deployability
> first. ... it's easier to deploy first and make incremental
> modifications for scalability than it is to do the opposite.
<Image of JNC rolling eyes...>
Keith, that's *exactly* the thinking that got us NAT to begin with!
I mean, we went through a long series of scalability "upgrades"; first to
A/B/C, then subnets, then CIDR, but eventually we just couldn't get any
more s*&^ in the 5-pound sack.
That's when the lack of any *real* scalability (the kind you put in the
*architecture* to begin with) brought us your favourite kludge.
So, yeah, it *is* easier to deploy first and then later make incremental
modifications for scalability - if you like NAT.
Noel
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