[79825] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Service providers that NAT their whole network?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew - Supernews)
Fri Apr 15 16:06:44 2005
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4260188C.4080104@nimcatnetworks.com> (Philip Matthews's
message of "Fri, 15 Apr 2005 15:39:56 -0400")
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 21:06:04 +0100
From: "Andrew - Supernews" <andrew@supernews.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
>>>>> "Philip" == Philip Matthews <matthews@nimcatnetworks.com> writes:
Philip> A number of IETF documents(*) state that there are some
Philip> service providers that place a NAT box in front of their
Philip> entire network, so all their customers get private addresses
Philip> rather than public address. It is often stated that these
Philip> are primarily cable-based providers.
Philip> I am trying to get a handle on how common this practice is.
Philip> No one that I have asked seems to know any provider that does
Philip> this,
fastweb.it in Italy, and the Direcway satellite system in the US are
the most obvious examples that I know of. I'm sure there are more.
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