Right, but those addresses still only work on RoadRunner's private
network, not the public Internet.
At some point your private address need to get translated to a public
one, unless the only destinations you communicate with are within the
private network.
And I for one really dislike it when ISPs issue private addreses.
That removes a huge security benefit that otherwise would be provided
by your NAT router.
Do they automatically block dangerous things like file and printer
sharing within their private network? Or are users up to their own
devices on that?
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Brian
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On 2010-04-27, at 4:37 PM, Christopher Fisk <[email protected]> wrote:
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, Brian Weeden wrote:
That's not the same. Your router us doing NAT and translating your
private IP address to a public one.
Not really.
It doesn't break RFC because road runner doesn't route any of those
IP's outside their network, it is all internal for their management.
It's an easy way to give them IP management of your cable box, cable
modem, etc without using publicly routable IP addresses.
At the crux of it the network Time warner runs is owned and
controlled by them. They aren't breaking any RFC rules by routing
1918 space on their "private" network.
Christopher Fisk
