[79824] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Service providers that NAT their whole network?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Fri Apr 15 15:59:15 2005
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 15:58:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
To: Philip Matthews <matthews@nimcatnetworks.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4260188C.4080104@nimcatnetworks.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, 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.
Didn't some of the African ISPs claim that they were forced to do this by
ILEC/monopoly providers who would not give them the IP space they
needed, resulting in ARIN allowing a minimum ISP allocation of /24 for the
African region which is now AfriNIC?
http://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/2003_15.html
http://archives.afnog.org/msg02339.html goes into much more detail
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