Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Use of NAT/PAT in a Uni

Recently started as a Sysadmin for a University. I noticed a lot of the subnets are NAT'd with a public IP rather than. The only exposure to this that I have is with a firewall/UTM handling NAT and assinging private IP's in my previous internal networks and sometimes doing a Static NAT.

What would be the goal/purpose of this?

For example: my workstation and many others around me all have public IP's. Even student/staff wireless. Wouldn't it be more conservative for this and the rest of the network to be a private IP?



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