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Re: (ASCEND) Pipeline 75: single address NAT in version 5.0B?

Jim Howard wrote:
> At 15:06 08/10/1997 -0400, you wrote:
> >Clifford Donley wrote:
> >> To the best of my understanding, the 5.0Ai16 functionality is not
> >> implemented in 5.0b.
> 
> >Thanks for helping to confirm my suspicion.  In an ideal world the
> FAQ
> >would be thorough and current.  Unfortunately, the P50/75 FAQ has
> >neither of these qualities.  I've emailed Ascend support asking when
> >this feature will be rolled in to the B version.
> 
> I've deleted all the messages about old p50 vs new p50
> from the last two weeks, but if I remember correctly,
> the many-to-many NAT was available (old p50) up to v5.0Ai10 or 13
> and at that point the NAT became a one-to-many in v5.0Ai16.
> for the old pipelines, you get only one option depending on the
> version.

I think the response from Ascend Support may clarify this once and for
all.  Below is a portion of an email I received from Ascend in response
to my question about when single address NAT will be available in the
new P50/75:
---------- begin response from Ascend --------
When you refer to the "single address NAT functionality," I'm guessing
that
you're referring to the implementation of NAT which will provide
translation for a number of machines on the Ethernet while requiring
only a
single address to be provided dynamically, or what we commonly refer to
as
"one to many NAT." You are correct, this functionality did not make the
5.0B release. The 5.0B release is an interim release for the new
hardware
model of the P50/P75. We are expecting 5.1A software to be released very
shortly, probably in the next 2 weeks, which will have a release for
both
the old hardware, as well as the new hardware, and it will incorporate
all
of the new features introduces in the 5.0Ai incremental branch of
software,
including one to many NAT.
----------- end --------

> (I'd check it out in my new p50's but UPS has them, probably for a
> while)

Not that it's worth much, but you have my personal apology for this
unfortunate situation.  With 15 million packages in the system at the
time of the strike, if management can deleiver 1 million per day (which
is about what we're averaging right now), it'll take 15 days to clear
the system.  Hopefully the strike will be resolved sooner than that.

-- 
Mark Hilbush

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
        -- Albert Einstein
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