[79823] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Service providers that NAT their whole network?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Fri Apr 15 15:44:19 2005
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 15:43:50 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4260188C.4080104@nimcatnetworks.com>; from Philip Matthews <matthews@nimcatnetworks.com> on Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 03:39:56PM -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 03:39:56PM -0400, Philip Matthews wrote:
> A number of IETF documents(*) state that there are some service providers
> that place a NAT box in front of their entire network, so all their
> customers get private addresses rather than public address.
> It is often stated that these are primarily cable-based providers.
>
> I am trying to get a handle on how common this practice is.
> No one that I have asked seems to know any provider that does this,
> and a search of a few FAQs plus about an hour of Googling hasn't
> turned up anything definite (but maybe I am using the wrong keywords ...).
>
> Can anyone give me some names of providers that do this?
Rose.net, the municipal provider in Thomasville GA. They'll assign you
a fixed public address which can be gotten back through if you ask, for
extra money, but your interface address will still be in 1918 space.
Cheers,
-- jra
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