Allocations for "always-on" ISPs

On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Neil J. McRae wrote:

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>> On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Neil J. McRae wrote:
>>
>> >> Now, say that an ASP wants to offer some service to your customers
>> >> (generating traffic = revenue) which has a communication pattern in which
>> >> the ASP needs to connect to the customer's PC. Because of NAT, this is not
>> >> possible.
>> >
>> >Yes it is, you just have to put in the configuration.
>
>Well depending on the service port mapping can be used to deliver
>services to customers - it doesn't work with everything but it does
>work - I used to use it for Napster.

Yes it works, but is this realistic for a large customer base? You are
going to have a _lot_ of non-standard port services around that you need
to administer and coordinate with ASPs.

Speaking for myself only, I do not consider it an alterative.

Regards,

-- Janne

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