[79830] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Service providers that NAT their whole network?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Call)
Fri Apr 15 16:40:43 2005
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 13:40:12 -0700 (PDT)
From: Scott Call <scall@devolution.com>
To: 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.
In my experience many cellular providers (at least in the US) do this as
well. A GPRS connection to Cingular, even from a laptop device, will get
a 1918 address. I don't mind since my phone runs linux with no root
password (thanks motorola).
-Scott
