From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alexis Subject: Re: IPTables, Linksys BEFSR41 and PCAnywhere Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 15:18:43 -0300 Sender: netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org Message-ID: <1074190723.1570.10.camel@pepelui.baicom> References: <000a01c3db92$465416d0$0f00a8c0@tandem> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <000a01c3db92$465416d0$0f00a8c0@tandem> Errors-To: netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org 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