|On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 14:50:05 -0400
|Ramin Alidousti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
| about Re: Completely NAT an ISP: A practical possibility?:

> >  The NAT solution is often used to allow multiple ISP access though the 
> >  same media provider (probably ADSL).
> 
> Doesn't bridged context DSLAM eliminate the need for the NAT?

I humbly confess that I do not know what DSLAM is ;o)

> This would break lots of protocols. How would the clients put up with
> this broken functionality?

Good observation. Yes it breaks some (all not NAT-able), and when this is used
clients have to live up with the limitations. But as I said, for the time being 
this is used to accomodate a multiple-ISP cenario where clients need basically
HTTP, FTP, and less percentage of H.323.  

Take notice that NAT takes place before the packets reach their service providers.
So maybe, I couldn't call it properly  "NAT an ISP" as the title suggests.
 
> Or maybe they tunnel on top of this IP network

Not that I know of.
Thank you for your observations.

regards,
Senra
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Rodrigo Senra         
MSc Computer Engineer   (GPr Sistemas Ltda)     [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
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