On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Michael Kalus wrote:Netgear also sells a variety of broadband gateway router / firewall appliances. (I have an FVS318 box which also provides VPN tunnels to my office environment.)
There might be the simple problem that the ISP is only going to hand out one IP Address.
Rogers for example is that way, they lock your cable modem down to one IP
(unless you buy more) per Modem.
which is precisely what's happening here. the linksys hub takes care of all NAT of internal hosts, and it works wonderfully.
obviously, this is not a solution if you want to run an internet- visible server, but since we're not, it works fine.
If you want to run a server visible to the Internet, most of these router / firewall appliances do have some provision for "port-forwarding". This type of feature can allow to specify a port (say port 80 for HTTP traffic) and a private internal IP address that traffic arriving on this port should be forwarded to. So you could run a public server inside the NAT (and firewall) environment provided by the router appliance.
Eric
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