|On Sun, 16 Jun 2002 00:17:45 +0100 |Nick Drage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote | about Re: Completely NAT an ISP: A practical possibility?:
>> On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 11:33:23PM +0100, Antony Stone wrote: > > On Saturday 15 June 2002 11:14 pm, Brian Capouch wrote: > > > Some current ISPs already do this, and I guess the popularity with their > > customers varies according to what the customers want to do :-) > > Can you name any ISPs that do this? I haven't seen it in my limited > experience. > Here in Brazil this is often used, though I'm not at liberty to name actual ISPs. We have very little H.323 (read Netmeeting) demand, but it is growing. Most ISP clients still have 56Kbps dial-up access, with the number of ADSL clients increasing fast. The NAT solution is often used to allow multiple ISP access though the same media provider (probably ADSL). Since there is a law that a "Content Provider" (like aol,etc) cannot be same as the media provider (like AT&T, etc), which fosters the adoption solution such as that. In fact, it is not the ISP that is "Natted", but a subset of the client address space before they reach their target ISP, and while in transit in the media provider routers. Naturally, there is some cooking to achieve that. I'm not sure if this is the kind of practical appication youe were expecting to hear from, but there is no harm to talk about it anyway.... regards, Senra -- Rodrigo Senra MSc Computer Engineer (GPr Sistemas Ltda) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~921234 (LinUxer 217.243) (ICQ 114477550)
