Re: [TCLUG:11933] DSL and NAT

["Eric M. Hopper" <hopper@omnifarious.mn.org>]

On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 10:21:39AM -0600, Clay Fandre wrote:
> 
> Does the 675 act as a basic router then?

	Yes.  That's how my 675 is set up.  I have a subnet with 2
static IPs, and my 675 has one, and my computer has the other.

> Is there a way to connect back into you machine(s) from the outside?
> Wouldn't the only outside IP be the 675?  Could you have a web server
> running?

	If you use DHCP for assigning internal IPs then you'll have to
use NAT, or the inside computer won't be able to talk to the outside at
all.  Once you have NAT set up, I think you can set up port forwarding
so you can still get to some services on your internal box.

	Unless, of course, you use DHCP to assign internal IPs from a
block of statics.  That would be an odd setup.  Most sites large enough
to make DHCP worthwhile are also large enough, and important enough from
a security standpoint, for NAT to be wortwhile.

Have fun (if at all possible),
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