Subj : Monitoring FidoNet
To : Kurt Weiske
From : August Abolins
Date : Thu May 27 2021 06:59 pm
Hello Kurt!
** On Thursday 27.05.21 - 07:02, you wrote to me:
KW> Some ISPs use "carrier NAT", which means you get a private
KW> address from the carrier, and they do their own NAT
KW> upstream from you. It's pretty transparent to a web
KW> browsing user checking their mail, but it means that you
KW> can't port-forward, since people on the outside can't get
KW> to your system.
I think that another term for that is "bridge mode"?
I know that one. An account with a local ISP was set up that
way at first and *broke* the ability to access the business pcs
from home. That was very upsetting.
