If you assign a port block per customer (PBA NAT in Juniper), you
don't really need to log anything... do you?

On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 3:45 PM, Adam Moffett <[email protected]> wrote:
> A recent thread about a subpoena made me wonder.  Historically this hasn't
> been an issue for me because I've had access to enough public IP's...but it
> might become an issue soon.
>
> Has anybody set up CGN with appropriate logging on Mikrotik?
> I'm thinking you would have to log every set of src-ip, dst-ip, src-port,
> and dst-port for each connection that a customer opens.  Does simply
> checking the "log" checkbox on the srcnat rule generate enough data or is
> there more to it?
>
> Has anybody tried the method on the wiki
> (http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:IP/Firewall/NAT#Carrier-Grade_NAT_.28CGNAT.29_or_NAT444)
> where you assign a range of port numbers to each private IP?  The idea is
> you don't have to log everything at that point because you know that a
> connection from port x corresponds to private ip y.  Then you just need to
> keep track of who has which private IP.  It seems like this would have a
> side effect of limiting the number of simultaneous connections a single
> customer could open....maybe not a bad thing.
>
> Thanks,
> Adam

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