NAT is useful

Posted Jan 30, 2007 20:46 UTC (Tue) by RobSeace (subscriber, #4435)
In reply to: NAT is useful by job
Parent article: Fedora's metrics have ripple effect (Linux.com)

They probably get away with on some technicality, of not actually charging for the IPs themselves, but for providing subnet routing for them, or something... But, the fact remains that if you want a subnet of publically-routable IPs for your LAN, you basically have to buy "business-class" ISP service, at least here in the USA... (And, the larger the subnet you need, the more expsenive...) For home users, they usually just give you a single dynamic IP that can change periodically, and if you need more than one machine on your LAN, you have to use RFC-1918 private IPs and a NAT box...