Re: ISPs can easily decrease net abuse

From: Barry Margolin (barmar_at_alum.mit.edu)
Date: 12/05/03 

Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 22:59:52 GMT

In article <3FCC5D1A.6ADAA453@welho.compromised.invalid>,
 Lassi Hippelainen <lassi.hippelainen@welho.compromised.invalid> wrote:

> Once the production of IP-capable cellular phones is up at full speed,
> there will be more than a hundred million new phones annually. If one
> NAT box can handle 10000 phones, an operator with 100 million customers
> (e.g in Asia) needs ten thousand NAT boxes. A whole building full of
> them...

My guess is they'll need all those routers whether or not they do NAT.
How many downstream devices do you think a non-NAT router can handle? 

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Woburn, MA
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