> Yes, but by default a modem from your ISP is acting as a NAT device routing to a private IP space.
Not in my experience. The default modem provided by both Comcast and Knology (who is -I guess- now WOW!) is (or was, in the case of Knology) a bridge device that requires you to provide your own router. You have to ask for a modem that's also a router to get something that's not a bridge.
That doesn't mean that the modem doesn't have an IP address, mind. AIUI, on Comcast's network the modem gets an IPv6 address so that they can do network management stuff to it.
Not in my experience. The default modem provided by both Comcast and Knology (who is -I guess- now WOW!) is (or was, in the case of Knology) a bridge device that requires you to provide your own router. You have to ask for a modem that's also a router to get something that's not a bridge.
That doesn't mean that the modem doesn't have an IP address, mind. AIUI, on Comcast's network the modem gets an IPv6 address so that they can do network management stuff to it.