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From: Michael Best [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > How are you connected to the client network? Is it a VPN? > What are the subnets involved? IP Masquerading can work > for only one subnet, or many. To be honest, I've no idea. Most of this is stuff I know nothing about, beyond what I've learnt trying to get something sorted. I'm pretty sure we're not using a VPN. We have NAT between our LAN and the customer LAN. At the moment, both our desktop PCs and our servers can see the customer network, but in the not too distant future, only servers will be able to do so. This is a customer security policy, which I can't do anything about. I've no idea how this will be implemented (something about rules in the router?) Our network people are not much help (to be fair, my group is a very minor part of a large problem, and so there aren't the resources to look at the requirements in detail). The current "official" solution is to use something like MS Terminal Services to log onto a local Windows 2000 Server, and install and run all the client software from there. I'm trying to find something less disruptive to our working practices. I got the impression that much of this sort of stuff was "just there" (I'm a Linux fan, but I've no experience of networking on Linux), so I was hoping that I could sell a Linux solution as a low-cost workaround which my group could implement without needing too much of the network people's time. I'm getting lots of helpful information, but I suspect that I'm also discovering that it needs detailed knowledge that only the experts have... Paul. PS In my reading, I've heard of something called SOCKS which also looks like it may offer what I'm after. Would it be worth investigating? I found a free SOCKS client from Hummingbird - are there free SOCKS servers, either for Linux or (in an emergency :-)) for Windows? The main SOCKS site seems to only have commercial offerings. _______________________________________________ Masq maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Admin requests can be handled at http://www.indyramp.com/masq-list/ -- THIS INCLUDES UNSUBSCRIBING! or email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] PLEASE read the HOWTO and search the archives before posting. You can start your search at http://www.indyramp.com/masq/ Please keep general linux/unix/pc/internet questions off the list.
