[afnog] Mikrotik Router Help

Arnis Riekstins rieks at mt.lv
Mon Jun 27 17:48:09 EAT 2005


There is Basic Setup Guide for MikroTik RouterOS at
http://www.mikrotik.com/docs/ros/2.8/guide/basic
See the example there, it is explained how to set up
masquerading, and how to test it.

Arnis

Monday, June 27, 2005, 4:55:41 PM, you wrote:


> This is my current situation, actually we have been assigned private IP
> addresses from our ISP, at the campus I have a proxy server running on
> Microsoft, ISA 2004 it has private IP. It goes through other NAT'ing
> devices, then to the ISP router.

> We are trying to get our own VSAT connection with Geolink
> (www.geolink.com), after that I think we will negotiate public ip pool.
> KU band seems cheaper for us, I have some facts that it can be affected
> by bad weather. How would you recommend before we go for it??

> For the router I will post a the .rsc file for more assistance

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Noah Sematimba [mailto:sematin at mtn.co.ug] 
> Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 3:17 PM
> To: John Gitau
> Cc: Wonder Chikohomero; afnog at afnog.org
> Subject: Re: [afnog] Mikrotik Router Help


> On Monday 27 June 2005 14:50, John Gitau wrote:

>> Are you running NAT behind another NAT'ting device? both address
> ranges
>> you mention are not supposed to be on the internet.

> There are quite a number of "ISPs" that give out private ip addresses
> and then 
> NAT their customers. One ISP here in Uganda which I will not mention :-)

> actually gives their customers private ip addreses and then does static
> NAT 
> for them at their end. No amount of talk could convince them of the
> folly of 
> this approach.





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