[asterisk-biz] Re: Verizon Interconnection

[Matt]

Alex,
With all due respect, your posts to this list that I have seen seem to show
you have a very large ego, and that if anyone disagrees with you they are
wrong and stupid.

On 6/10/07, alex at pilosoft.com <alex at pilosoft.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 9 Jun 2007, Matt wrote:
>
> > Christopher,
> > I understand exactly what you are saying.... but let's think about this
> for
> > a moment.
> >
> > If the networks we are stitching together have all public IPs, then
> either
> > one of two things is happening.
> >
> > 1 - You can't access the IPs from the Internet, so they aren't really
> > public....they are from the public pool, and are depleting the limited
> > supply for IPs, but they aren't public, therefore they should be private
> > IPs.
> >
> > 2 - You can access the IPs from the Internet, therefore, there is no
> need
> > for a VPN.
> >
> > You should never never never NEVER use public IPs behind a firewall
> (unless
> > they can be accessed from the Internet).   To put a public IP behind a
> > firewall where it can't be accessed is a waste of IP space, and asking
> for
> > routing problems.
> You are on &@*#($&*#$ crack, that's why you can't get your VZ
> interconnect to work.
>
> a) You can, and occasionally should, use public space on a network that's
> not connected to public Internet. You *can* request IP space from ARIN or
> other RIRs for specifically those purposes. Reasons can be: 1) you may
> need to connect to internet later without renumbering 2) so you can
> connect two private networks tomorrow without risk of conflict. Read
> RFC1918, 'disadvantages' part.
>
> b) Just because you are running IPSEC, it doesn't mean you have to have
> private IP space on either side. It doesn't mean you have to run it in
> "tunnel" mode. The purpose of IPSEC is to encrypt live traffic, without
> need for additional IP addresses or tunnels or whatever.
>
> Hire someone who knows what they are doing.
>
> -alex
>
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