<div class="gmail_quote">On 19 May 2010 22:40, Narelle <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:narellec@gmail.com">narellec@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">I was reminded of this recently when someone posted a request for</div>
recommendations on proxies - due to P2P users squeezing out all the<br>
other conference attendees when they had stolen all the available port<br>
mappings. Take a look at the future...</blockquote><div><br></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><div>FWIW, I received zero worthwhile recommendations for that NAT problem I posed (and one worthwhile one for the shaping request). The specific port exhaustion issue was really an issue with how Windows manages the public side of the NAT but still ... Every time I ask people what to use for 3500 people behind NAT on one network they just look at me blankly.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Mark Newton's comment about NAT sucking is correct - but I think we will be using NAT on v4 address space for the foreseeable future. </div><div><br></div></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">Most users need very few ports, but there is always the edge case/a-hole factor to contend with: <a href="http://www.techedbackstage.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Client-port-utilisation.png" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(92, 69, 32); ">http://www.techedbackstage.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Client-port-utilisation.png</a> (I had another chart during the event that I couldn't lay my hands on for that post that showed a few users with ~3000 mappings).</span></div>
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