Service providers that NAT their whole network?

Fri Apr 15 20:40:12 UTC 2005

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