Completely NAT an ISP: A practical possibility?

[Sathi]

Hi,
I am Sathi from India.
I have implemented this in my place by providing a connectionn to 100 to 150
customers.

I provide a Local ip address and all will be terminate in a linux box in my
office which is then nated to public ip.

Everything looks fine except MSN voice chat , NETMEETING voice and video and
some other tools used for phone2pc and pc2phone.

Regards,
Sathi

> On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 11:33:23PM +0100, Antony Stone wrote:
> > On Saturday 15 June 2002 11:14 pm, Brian Capouch wrote:
>
> > > I wonder if the sages on this list might share advice as to whether or
> > > not it might be practical to maintain a working ISP where ALL client
> > > machines use private IP addresses, which are then NAT-ted to public IP
> > > space as necessary by iptables.
> > >
> > > The biggest drawback that has been voiced so far is that many
> > > peer-to-peer apps would break, but I'm not so sure right now that is
bad
> > > thing.
> >
> > 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.
>
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