[afnog] Configuring mikrotik to supply my clients with public IPs

Robert Longla rtlongla at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Jun 29 17:05:34 EAT 2005


I just bought a Mikrotik RouterOS. Can someone use to
this router give me the basic setup to supply my
clients with public IPs. So far i have been using
NAT(masqurading) to supply only local IPs



Robert



--- Phil Regnauld <regnauld at x0.dk> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 02:30:34PM +0100, Brian
> Candler wrote:
> > 
> > NAT is here, IMO, because it gives people what
> they *want*. Really.
> > 
> > NAT is a broken version of what I believe would be
> the real solution: 
> 
> > NAT allows end users to free themselves entirely
> and get on with running 
> > their networks.
> 
> 	Already there you nailed it square on.  Solving the
> abovementioned
> 	problems immediately with NAT trumps any future
> thoughts of scalability
> 	or "proper" network design.
> 
> 	It's a bit like why Linux these days is
> increasingly being used
> 	more than *BSD for weird network scenarios.  By
> weird I don't
> 	mean "reverse nat, transparent proxy then ipsec
> encapsulate", I mean
> 	"source route and forward to another default
> gateway base on the IP
> 	of the client if he's running HTTP".  While "ip"
> (the ugly undocumented
> 	command that some linux distributions) and
> "ipchains" (the ugly
> 	firewall/masquerading/rewriting hack that has more
> GNU long options
> 	than ls).
> 
> 	ipchains and this kind of gross hacks is not what
> we'd define
> 	"proper network design", but unfortunately that's
> what people
> 	are doing.
> 
> 	
> 
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