[137214] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Bonser)
Thu Feb 10 00:51:33 2011
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 21:51:28 -0800
In-Reply-To: <op.vqn8oe1qtfhldh@rbeam.xactional.com>
From: "George Bonser" <gbonser@seven.com>
To: "Ricky Beam" <jfbeam@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>=20
> On Wed, 09 Feb 2011 18:47:34 -0500, George Bonser <gbonser@seven.com>
> wrote:
> > 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.
>=20
> Correct. The distinction you seem unware of (or unwilling to accept)
> is
> that the ISP did not assign you a private address. Your CPE did. The
> ISP
> gave you a single public IPv4 address. =20
> --Ricky
My comment was addressed to a poster from Europe who seemed surprised
that there were home users behind a NAT at all. =20
