"George Bonser" <gbonser@seven.com> writes:
In other words, the broadband provider provides a single global IP to the "always up" CPE. That CPE does DHCP to user stations and hands out 1918 addresses and NATs them to the single global IP.
Ah there is the misunderstanding. Same her in good old Europe. If you pay for it you'll get more than one public IP. I though you were talking about the CPE getting an RFC1918 address and than hand out RFC1918 addresses to the inside as well and (maybe) another instance of NAT along the way. Well yes, there are providers which are already doing this. Jens -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Foelderichstr. 40 | 13595 Berlin, Germany | +49-151-18721264 | | http://blog.quux.de | jabber: jenslink@guug.de | ------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------