"Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" wrote:
>
> On Thursday, November 23, 2000 11:43 +0100, Harald Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> +-----
> | I don't think your NAT box will be able to determine where to deliver
> | callbacks from your server on the public side to your client on the
> | private side. In spite of it appearing to work (especially reads) in
> | the beginning, you will probably loose in the long run and you will
> | miss file updates.
> +--->8
>
> Actually, it works quite well as long as you set the masq timeout for port
> 7003/udp (IIRC) to be effectively infinite. We have 75 compute servers
> behind a NAT/ipmasq gateway which has been so modified, they've been
> working fine for several years.
>
> This will, of course, chew up a lot of ports on the gateway if you have
> more than a few machines behind it.
So the client/server isn't dependent on the source port being correct?
I've noticed that the source port almost always is in the 7000-7003
range as well. I guess the server doesn't care?
-- Nathan
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