From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 8 22:39:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-141-144.mmcable.com [24.27.141.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CF99D37B401 for ; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 22:39:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 51310 invoked by uid 100); 9 Aug 2001 05:39:22 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15218.8714.917019.176167@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 00:39:22 -0500 To: Bob Collins Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT, Linksys router In-Reply-To: <25957159@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bob Collins types: > I begin with an apology for going off topic, but figure there is a > huge knowledge base here, and I can get a good solid answer. For that, > Thanks. > > On to the question, I am contemplating a Linksys BEFSR41 for my > office. We have a Bellsouth business DSL connection with 5 static IPs. > I cannot find the information on linksys site nor can I get a decent > answer from their tech support, but I want to know if anyone is using > one of these to route the 5 IPs to the IIS I have here, and use NAT > from the Linksys for the rest of my systems. The router from B$ does > not support multiple IPs on it's WAN link. I hope this makes sense. It doesn't make a lot of sense. Why would BellSouth give you 5 IP addresses, but not give you a router that lets you use them? To do what you're talking about, you need two routers. One talks to the WAN link and the 5 IP addresses you got from BellSouth. The second is at one of those five IP addresses, and runs NAT so that everything on the other side of it appears to be at that address. The LinkSys box works fine for the second router. Since you can't turn off NAT, it can't be used at the first router, which is my only real complaint about the thing. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message