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John Calcote (jcalcote@xxxxxxxxxx) Sr. Software Engineeer Novell, Inc. >>> John C Klensin john-ietf@xxxxxxx> 4/5/2006 10:43:36 am >>
--On Wednesday, 05 April, 2006 08:09 -0700 Michel Py
<michel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Michel Py wrote: >>> Unfortunately some protocol purity zealots still have to >>> realize that Linksys, Netgear, Belkin and consorts don't >>> sell NAT boxes because they think NAT is good, they sell >>> NAT boxes because consumers want to buy them. It is worth noting in this context that many of the Router products that are sold for SOHO use (including the high-end products from the first two vendors listed above) do not provide any support for multiple static addresses except via one-to-one NAT. It is simply not possible to configure those devices to support use of static public addresses for hosts on the LAN side. This situation would somewhat contaminate the results of the survey you suggest above. These are not ISP-imposed limitations, but limitations imposed by commercially-available products. --------------
I'll just jump in here for a second and mention also that vendors offer what they have to, not what they can. They want to provide the most "bang for the buck", so to speak. These companies don't offer the multiple-static-ip-address option today because most ISP's don't offer it to home users and home (SOHO) users represent the target market. That said, they *would* offer these features if SOHO users were constantly frustrated about the fact that they can't make use of the multiple static addresses that their ISP provides them because of limitations in their router equipment... The fact is, _when_ IPv6 becomes truly mainstream and ISP's begin to offer multiple static addresses because they can, then these companies will offer the features on their routers.
Let's not mistake what the world wants, for what it is successfully living with today.
John
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