[137406] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Bonser)
Sat Feb 12 04:09:00 2011
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 01:08:10 -0800
In-Reply-To: <4D564CA8.9010206@mistral.co.uk>
From: "George Bonser" <gbonser@seven.com>
To: "Adam Atkinson" <ghira@mistral.co.uk>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>=20
> When I switched to ADSL I'm pretty sure I was offered the choice of a
> single public IP address on the outside of my router, or a /29 public
> range for my home network (and presumably also a public address for
the
> external interface of my router). I chose the former and don't regret
> having done so. I can do a mixture of static and dynamic NAT to allow
> things from the outside into particular internal hosts if I want do.
>=20
> This was in 2005, and I can very well believe this choice was not
> available some time later.
I had a similar setup at one time, I believe it was from Speakeasy but I
can't remember, might have been a Covad beta with another provider that
my late wife was working for when ADSL was brand new. Not saying it
can't be or isn't done; just that for the vast majority (probably
something like 90% or more) it isn't.
George
