Re: Last Call: Implications of Various Address Allocation Policies for Internet

Robert Moskowitz <rgm3@is.chrysler.com> Thu, 15 February 1996 14:55 UTC

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From: Robert Moskowitz <rgm3@is.chrysler.com>
Subject: Re: Last Call: Implications of Various Address Allocation Policies for Internet
Cc: Jim Forster <forster@cisco.com>, Mathew Lodge <lodge@houston.omnes.net>, ietf@IETF.CNRI.Reston.VA.US
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At 06:25 AM 2/15/96 -0500, Dorian Kim wrote:
>On Thu, 15 Feb 1996, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
>> As I recall, there is one case that breaks this.  Where your internal
>> address space gets assigned to someone else on the big-I.  Then the NAT
>> could have interesting routing problems.
>
>One place private address space (RFC1597 (has that been updated 
>recently?) comes in very handy. I know of a customer who has done this + 
>NAT, and is very happy with result.

True.  That was one of our reasons for creating the private address space so
that the need of a double firewall would be avoided.

Robert Moskowitz
Chrysler Corporation
(810) 758-8212