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My old uni holds two /16s which are used for clients. Firewalled, but if you use the Wi-Fi there then you are getting your own "personal" IPv4 address per devic
by angulardragon03 5y ago
My old uni holds two /16s which are used for clients. Firewalled, but if you use the Wi-Fi there then you are getting your own "personal" IPv4 address per device.
- jeroenhd 5y agoI know several universities that do the same. On certain LANs there isn't even a firewall, you just get a public IP. At my current university I think there's a limit of five or six static allocations per person, the rest is all dynamically allocated (and still a normal IP, no NAT here). And I honestly don't see why not. This is how the internet was designed to be used, and it works a lot better than most large managed networks in the 10/8 range I've seen. It'll only be a problem once there are more students and services than there is address space.
- briffle 5y agoYou mean they are using IP's as they were originally designed? Those people probably have NO conflicts or problems with things like video conferencing, VPN's, etc. NAT is a cludge, not a security feature.
- trollied 5y agoI can't recall the last time that NAT caused me any problems. Is it still an issue these days?
- thereddaikon 5y agoEven if its a mature cludge, its still a cludge.
- lesuorac 5y agoIIUC, things like WebRTC have STUN & TURN servers solely to get around NAT.
- lmm 5y agoThe modern CGNAT version is. This very week I tried to play an old game with a friend and had trouble.
- alar44 5y agoI have never had an issue with NAT and I've never even heard of someone having an issue. In what situation would you find NAT to be the root cause?