Re:AT&T Fiber in the SF Bay Area is flipping bits
by _rs on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @12:19AM
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So are you bridged then or is it really a double nat?
Re:AT&T Fiber in the SF Bay Area is flipping bits
by warent on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @02:11PM
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this is really where my limited knowledge of networking shows. I'm not entirely sure but I want to say both or double nat. There's two networks, but my router thinks theirs is a modem and is connected via the "Internet" port, not just a normal device port
Re:AT&T Fiber in the SF Bay Area is flipping bits
by _rs on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @12:05AM
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Ah ok - sounds like a double NAT then, not a bridge.
Edit: to go into more detail, their router is acting as a NAT for your public IP, giving you your first subnet, and then your router is getting a single IP on that subnet and creating a NAT where your devices all get IPs. In a bridge there would only be 1 IP space behind a single NAT. In your case with a double NAT a lot of consumer things might not work (like UPnP) and port forwarding would require you to add rules to both routers.
Re:AT&T Fiber in the SF Bay Area is flipping bits
by warent on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @04:10AM
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Thanks, yes that's exactly what it is then. In order to give external access to my devices (e.g. my NAS) I have to forward ports from their router to my router, and from my router to the device. So, definitely double NAT. Amusingly the person who installed it incorrectly called it a bridge.
Thank you for the insight and lesson!
A weird side effect of this is that I'm not using the 192.168.x.x range like usual (because that's what theirs is using), but instead the 10.0.x.x range