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.
Didn't some of the African ISPs claim that they were forced to do this by ILEC/monopoly providers who would not give them the IP space they needed, resulting in ARIN allowing a minimum ISP allocation of /24 for the African region which is now AfriNIC? http://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/2003_15.html http://archives.afnog.org/msg02339.html goes into much more detail ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis | I route Senior Network Engineer | therefore you are Atlantic Net | _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________