10 Feb
2011
10 Feb
'11
12:51 a.m.
On Wed, 09 Feb 2011 18:47:34 -0500, George Bonser <gbonser@seven.com> wrote:
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.
Correct. The distinction you seem unware of (or unwilling to accept) is that the ISP did not assign you a private address. Your CPE did. The ISP gave you a single public IPv4 address. --Ricky
My comment was addressed to a poster from Europe who seemed surprised that there were home users behind a NAT at all.