14 May
2017
14 May
'17
7:09 p.m.
On Sun, 14 May 2017 12:24:10 +0200, Rob Janssen <pe1chl(a)amsat.org> said:
In fact so many users have been completely accustomed
to NAT that
they even apply it to AMPRnet... Putting their systems on RFC1918
addresses and translating it to net-44 addresses in the router. I
would not do that...
Some consumer quality routers assume that all LAN addresses *MUST* be
in an RFC1918 range, e.g., 192.168.n.n. The routers usually allow the
user to set the third octet, but not the first or second, and they
reserve the last octet for DHCP and/or local fixed addresses. IIRC,
most allow the user to set the subnet mask's last octet too, but
that's as much flexibility as users get.
Sometimes, the same restrictions apply to the other devices on the
LAN, especially printers, and so it's often easier to put a 44net
address on the "WAN" side of a router and do NAT.
Bill, W4EWH