[137171] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Bonser)
Wed Feb 9 18:48:18 2011
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 15:47:34 -0800
In-Reply-To: <5A6D953473350C4B9995546AFE9939EE0BC1399F@RWC-EX1.corp.seven.com>
From: "George Bonser" <gbonser@seven.com>
To: "George Bonser" <gbonser@seven.com>,
"Owen DeLong" <owen@delong.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>=20
> > Almost none of the broadband providers in the US NAT their
customers.
>=20
> Well, I suppose I have been unlucky then because every single one I
> have
> had has NATed me. I had a "real" IP when I had dialup, but I got NAT
> when I went broadband. I have a friend that has another service and
> she
> is NATed too. Boot up in her network and you get 192.168.1.x
In other words, the broadband provider provides a single global IP to
the "always up" CPE. That CPE does DHCP to user stations and hands out
1918 addresses and NATs them to the single global IP.
I have had 3 broadband providers over the past 10 years, all three have
done that. I have a friend on a fourth provider that also does that.
I have yet to see a broadband provider that configures a network so that
individual nodes in the home network get global IPs.
