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IcePictoday at 8:20 AM2 repliesview on HN

Well, in a strict sense, it is "you" who chooses to run a nat'ing router there, you could just have one single computer per ISP connection. Or have it run a proxy for you, or nat.

I mean, I understand that this feels normal today, that 10-20-50 devices need internet and that the way to manage that is to nat the connections, but your ISP isn't doing nat, it is you.


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mort96today at 12:26 PM

The model of "every Internet subscriber gets one IP address" only works thanks to NAT.