Re: Service providers that NAT their whole network?

2005-04-22 Thread John Payne
On Apr 22, 2005, at 1:14 PM, Chris Woodfield wrote: Apologies for the late reply, but T-Mobile's US GPRS network hands out RFC1918 space as well. Ah, that depends on if you're on WAP, T-Mobile Internet or T-Mobile VPN. The VPN service is exactly the same as the Internet one, except that it gives

Re: Service providers that NAT their whole network?

2005-04-22 Thread Chris Woodfield
Apologies for the late reply, but T-Mobile's US GPRS network hands out RFC1918 space as well. -C 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

Re: Service providers that NAT their whole network?

2005-04-19 Thread Philip Matthews
Thanks to everyone who replied to my question about NAT usage in service providers (see original posting below). I got a lot of private replies, as well as those who posted to the list. To summarize: It seems that there are quite a few providers who do this. I was told of at least 24 providers in

Re: Service providers that NAT their whole network?

2005-04-19 Thread Owen DeLong
That makes very little sense to me since the smaller providers can get a /22 directly from ARIN. I, personaly, would never purchase service from a provider that insisted on sticking me behind NAT. SPRINT PCS does not NAT my cellphone. I receive a dynamic address at connection time, but, it is a

Re: Service providers that NAT their whole network?

2005-04-19 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On 4/20/05, Tom Vest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 19, 2005, at 5:25 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: That makes very little sense to me since the smaller providers can get a /22 directly from ARIN. Sometimes resources that are come from a regional registry are not welcomed by a national

Re: Service providers that NAT their whole network?

2005-04-19 Thread Tom Vest
On Apr 19, 2005, at 10:24 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: On 4/20/05, Tom Vest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 19, 2005, at 5:25 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: That makes very little sense to me since the smaller providers can get a /22 directly from ARIN. Sometimes resources that come from a regional

Re: Service providers that NAT their whole network?

2005-04-19 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On 4/20/05, Tom Vest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As in, sometimes national operators will decline to speak bgp to (topologically) subnational operators, so that even when they present themselves with a regionally allocated public ASN and address space, these will not be accepted. I am not at

Re: Service providers that NAT their whole network?

2005-04-19 Thread Tom Vest
On Apr 19, 2005, at 10:57 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: One possible reason would be that quite often the people there are not very capable at bgp at all .. so someone who's selling them routers gives them a static route to their upstream, then they give their downstream customers a word doc

Re: Service providers that NAT their whole network?

2005-04-18 Thread christian . macnevin
providers that NAT their whole network? On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 03:39:56PM -0400, 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

Service providers that NAT their whole network?

2005-04-15 Thread Philip Matthews
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. I am trying to get a handle

Re: Service providers that NAT their whole network?

2005-04-15 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 03:39:56PM -0400, 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

Re: Service providers that NAT their whole network?

2005-04-15 Thread Jon Lewis
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

Re: Service providers that NAT their whole network?

2005-04-15 Thread Andrew - Supernews
Philip == Philip Matthews [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Philip A number of IETF documents(*) state that there are some Philip service providers that place a NAT box in front of their Philip entire network, so all their customers get private addresses Philip rather than public address. It is

Re: Service providers that NAT their whole network?

2005-04-15 Thread sjk
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. I am trying to get a

Re: Service providers that NAT their whole network?

2005-04-15 Thread Steve Meuse
On 4/15/05, Philip Matthews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to get a handle on how common this practice is. No one that I have asked seems to know any provider that does this, and a search of a few FAQs plus about an hour of Googling hasn't turned up anything definite (but maybe I am

Re: Service providers that NAT their whole network?

2005-04-15 Thread Bill Woodcock
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. I

Re: Service providers that NAT their whole network?

2005-04-15 Thread Scott Call
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

RE: Service providers that NAT their whole network?

2005-04-15 Thread Reeves, Rob
there's several compromises you'd have to make in order to operate this way. -Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Philip Matthews Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 3:40 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Service providers that NAT their whole

Re: Service providers that NAT their whole network?

2005-04-15 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
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

Re: Service providers that NAT their whole network?

2005-04-15 Thread Jeff Kell
While not big by any sense of the word, we NAT [almost] all of our internal network. It wasn't initially a matter of choice, but rather of necessity. We had a sprinklings of small netblocks in the old legacy C swamp, mostly in the old SURAnet/BBN allocation, and after the Genuity takeover they