On Sun, 14 May 2017 12:24:10 +0200, Rob Janssen pe1chl@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