GPRS - fairly off topic

[Tim Chown]

On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 10:12:55AM -0500, Jeff LaCoursiere wrote:
> 
> Depending on your operator you may or may not be able to make direct IP
> connections on strange ports or with protocols other than TCP.

I think this is important - different operators allow different things,
and I believe at least one operator in Germany offers public IP addresses,
but I don't have hard details on that.  For private IP space I think the 
172 chunk is 172.16.0.0/12, not 172.0.0.0/8, as well as 10.0.0.0/8 and 
192.168.0.0/16.

While GPRS doesn't allow inbound services (including spam :) the operators
can get away with private IP and NAT.  If they want to open it up, I guess
they'll wait for IPv6, but they're all a bit pressed for pennies to do the
development and deployment work right now :)

I have used GPRS via Familiar Linux and an iPAQ, but the cost is hideous :(
The instructions for that are here:
	http://dnsv6.iihe.ac.be/iPAQGPRSv6/BtConfig.html
(I don't believe there is BSD for an iPAQ yet... or is there?)

Tim