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, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com Designer Baylink RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates The Things I Think '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 If you can read this... thank a system administrator. Or two. --me