[afnog] Mikrotik Router Help

[Randy Bush]

>>> 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.
>>
>> those who need some understanding why this is not a good idea might
>> see <http://rip.psg.com/~randy/040226.apnic-nats.pdf>.
> 
> NAT is here, IMO, because it gives people what they *want*. Really.

yes.  but in the case we're discussing, the people who want are the
colonialist telcos trying to monopolize the internet in africa.  you
might hesitate to defend this practice.

randy