Re: IPTables, Linksys BEFSR41 and PCAnywhere

["Caracal - G. Hostettler" <100112_2660@bluewin.ch>]

Mmhhh, just a typo,

IANA says 5631 and 5632 TCP and UDP. But you can forget UDP.

GH

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alexis" <alexis@attla.net.ar>
To: <netfilter@lists.netfilter.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 7:18 PM
Subject: Re: IPTables, Linksys BEFSR41 and PCAnywhere


> youre right, just dont forget that pc anywhere uses 2 ports, that i
> think they are 5631 and 5631 tcp
>
> the linksys is with nat enabled? (its just to know, forwarding the ports
> is enough to work)
>
>
> On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 15:06, A. Clausen wrote:
> > We are using netfilter to run a broadband wireless network.  For
customers
> > wanting a public IP, we simply forward a public IP to an internal NAT
IP.
> >
> > We have one customer who wants to use PCAnywhere remotely to contact his
> > machine on the inside.  As usual, I simply forwarded a public IP to the
> > private IP.  On the private IP they have a Linksys BEFSR41 router.
> >
> > Basically it looks like this:
> >
> > public ip ---> Linux netfilter router ---> private ip ---> Linksys
> > router ---> customer's network
> >
> > He is insisting that he needs to actually have a public IP, rather than
just
> > having our Linux router forward a public IP to a private.  We have other
> > customers doing similiar things, one even opening up ports for MS-SQL
> > server, without a problem, so I'm presuming that this customer is coming
> > from a position of ignorance.  But before I start digging deeper, I need
> > confirmation that this Linksys router is not some bizarre piece of
hardware.
> -- 
> Alexis <alexis@attla.net.ar>
>
>