IPv4 if needed ie if 'reason for need' can be shown is still available at afrinic. The responsible thing to do if you are a service provider is acquire the resource especially if someone is kind enough to keep it aside for you in the face of an uncertain future. In this case orange/airtel/yu/safaricom should definately get enough to activate their projected peak PDP contexts * 3 to factor in growth for about 3 - 4 yrs when we have large scale ipv6 content available. On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Nyagitari Bosire <nyagitari@gmail.com>wrote:
Might be a case of limitation on public IPv4 addresses. Can't imagine there is any more SPs still tied to the notion of enforcing security by hiding devices behind NAT. Again, SP end kind of NAT was used to ensure reliance on SP, old school again, as it made it difficult to host any web services within the local environment if only a private IP addresses were used.
Nyagitari
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 7:47 AM, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com>wrote:
Is there a good reason why Orange Telecom (what is the name?) is doing NAT for 3G users or maybe I am just being silly?
I am looking at the status of my router - I use a dongle on a D-Link DIR-825 - and my WAN IP is 10.53.26.48.
However, whatismyip.com tells me that my IP address is 212.49.88.108.
Does this mean some MNOs don't have a large enough IP space to assign public IPs to subscribers?
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