The cable modem itself runs NAT

Troy


On Mon, 24 Dec 2001, David P. Schwartz wrote:

> Then how do they allow for anything to get routed from their network down to your box???  I would imagine that would also make it impossible for
> cookies to be left on the machine if the originating IP appears as a local-only address.  Which would prevent lots of e-commerce sites and
> banking services from working.
>
> -David
>
> Troy wrote:
>
> > I think perhaps you missed what I was saying. :)
> >
> > Cable America gives you a local only IP.  ie.. 192.168.0.X style
> > addressing unless you pay for a static IP which they bind to the MAC
> > address of your NIC.  Obviously if you have a 192.168 address the rest of
> > the internet cannot connect to it regardless of DNS service. =)
> >
> > Troy
> >
>
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