12 Feb
2011
12 Feb
'11
4:02 a.m.
George Bonser wrote:
I have yet to see a broadband provider that configures a network so that individual nodes in the home network get global IPs.
When I switched to ADSL I'm pretty sure I was offered the choice of a single public IP address on the outside of my router, or a /29 public range for my home network (and presumably also a public address for the external interface of my router). I chose the former and don't regret having done so. I can do a mixture of static and dynamic NAT to allow things from the outside into particular internal hosts if I want do. This was in 2005, and I can very well believe this choice was not available some time later.