North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Service providers that NAT their whole network?
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 -- Jay R. Ashworth [email protected] Designer Baylink RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates The Things I Think '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 If you can read this... thank a system administrator. Or two. --me
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