Re: [BEHAVE] proprietary implementation v.s standardised protocols //re: draft-xu-behave-nat-state-sync-00

Simon Perreault <simon.perreault@viagenie.ca> Wed, 25 November 2009 23:24 UTC

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On 11/25/2009 12:57 PM, Reinaldo Penno wrote:
> If the boxes are from different vendors or even different platforms from the
> same vendor, how to deal with issues such as different memory footprint for
> NAT state, different NAT implementations, different processor speeds, etc?
>
> Most NAT redundancy schemes are 1+1 because the implementation specific
> issues above preclude a heterogeneous solution.

I guess the point is that NAT64 is precise enough that a standard state 
sync protocol is possible.

Compare with NAT44, which was never standardized.

Simon
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