Subj : Monitoring FidoNet
To   : August Abolins
From : John Dovey
Date : Fri May 28 2021 02:34 am

Glad to see you, August!

 AA> Hello Kurt!
 AA> 
 AA> ** On Thursday 27.05.21 - 07:02, you wrote to me:
 AA> 
 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.
 AA> 
 AA> I think that another term for that is "bridge mode"?
 AA> 
 AA> I know that one. An account with a local ISP was set up that  
 AA> way at first and broke the ability to access the business pcs  
 AA> from home.  That was very upsetting.
 AA> 
 AA> --
 AA>   ../|ug

I've finally gotten to talk to the *right* people and have now applied for a 
static IP. I'm told once I have that I won't have any issues, We'll see.

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