Service providers that NAT their whole network?

Fri Apr 15 21:35:06 UTC 2005

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).

Must depend on the service.  My CDPD and the 1X-RTT that replaced it,
both from Verizontal, had public addresses, though they grew incoming
filters around the Code Red days...

Cheers,
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