[80056] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Service providers that NAT their whole network?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Woodfield)
Fri Apr 22 13:15:57 2005
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 13:14:58 -0400
From: Chris Woodfield <rekoil@semihuman.com>
To: Scott Call <scall@devolution.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0504151338380.15720@twomix.devolution.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Apologies for the late reply, but T-Mobile's US GPRS network hands out
RFC1918 space as well.
-C
On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 01:40:12PM -0700, Scott Call wrote:
>
> 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
