Service providers that NAT their whole network?
Chris Woodfield
rekoil at semihuman.com
Fri Apr 22 17:14:58 UTC 2005
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
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