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In article <34bacce5.386663004@news.demon.co.uk>,
Barry Schofield <bscho@lioncom.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>On Tue, 06 Jan 1998 08:12:39 +0000, Adrian Kennard
><593027877@nospam.andrews-arnold.co.uk> wrote:
>>Claire Moore wrote:
>>> I would really appreciate anyones thoughts on which provider would be able
>>> to offer a package to let approx 5 users browse the internet at one time, &
>>> 10 Email dial-up accounts.  This is all we would need.  Having spoken to the
>>> "biggies" in the market (eg. Pipex etc), they really are not aimed at the
>>> small business market.
>>
>>Demon allow as many machines as you like using NAT, and allow
>>unlimited email addresses. They would seem very sensible.
>
> Does Demon actually allow this? I should keep this very quiet.
> Demon would like everyone who has more than one machine to go to
> their business tariff, and they will not assist in giving advice on
> this matter on the 10 pound connections.

Perhaps they mean 'more than one IP address'? That wouldn't be unreasonable.


>I thought it was more they had a problem stopping it? I should
>imagine, if to many take this option up they would stop NAT routing.

I'd like to know how they could stop you from using NAT on your end of the
connection. Aside from sniffing out the types and number of connections
from the single 'real' IP address on your LAN, it'd be difficult to even
detect that you're using NAT, and basically impossible to prevent.