[ILUG] Class C Addresses

[Paul Jakma]

On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Treanor, Ciaran wrote:

> More precisely, how would you know if you needed lots of IP
> addresses of if you could simply get away with using NAT?

if you have globally unique addresses then you dont need to worry 
whether or not you can "get away with" NAT.

> ???

ie, there's no way you can connect to my machine, because it does not 
have a unique address. (ignoring firewalls).

> I think that a certain amount of people will. Colm Buckley
> presented a good argument why earlier on.

right, and they're good arguments. 

but the vast majority of NAT use is to workaround IPv4 address 
shortages.

other more special case applications are different.

> Ciaran T

--paulj