On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Tony wrote: > Bullshit....that's what I am doing. And, as a matter of fact, they even > suggested using a linksys firewall with the 4 port switch. > > I guess they don't want to field LEAF questions ;-)
Possibly. They may just not be enforcing rules very closely. > Later > > Tony > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 5:00 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Leaf-user] cable modem and NAT > > > > > My boss wants to put a linux router behind his > Road Runner(the ISP) cable modem so he can have a decent > firewall and possibly port forwarding. > > RoadRunner says he can't do NAT. > Is that just smoke? > How would they know? Circumstantial evidence. If a majority of the external connections are made from ports 61000 to 65095, it is a pretty good bet the ip address is masqueraded. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...2k --------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
