Re: IPTables, Linksys BEFSR41 and PCAnywhere

[Alexis <alexis@attla.net.ar>]

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>