Wanted: a Satellite office access box

Stephen Hodgman steve at namsys.com.au
Fri Aug 30 10:08:11 EST 2002


John,
Thanks for the thought but port forwarding means all traffic of a type (port) 
goes to one specific host.  No good if there is more than one host to be 
accessed.

On 30 Aug 2002 at 9:53, John Griffiths wrote:

> >The latest rage seems to be these "Cable Internet Access Routers with 
> >dial backup".  Well, so far every one of those I have looked at has a 
> >firewall that does NAT whether you like it or not!  Hence no access from 
> >central office to satellite office computers/services.
> >
> 
> You can port forward through the NAT, dunno if that solves all your issues
> tho


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