>"Dan Langille"<dan.langille@dvl-software.com> wrote:
>
>> First off, I don't think you want a cross over cable here. Just a normal

>cable
>> will do. That's what I'm using. And I'm doing NAT.
>
>I'm pretty, nay absolutely certain, that to connect ethernet back to back
>requires a cross over, unless, there is one of those "cross-over" ports
>available, or some real clever ports can adapt.

You are correct. If I recall correctly I was given just such a cable. Ask
XTRA. They might give you one.

>> The pinholes, from memory, are Lower-Port, Upper-Port, IP Address, Port.
 So
>> you are mapping several ports to a *single* port. How does the box know

>what
>> protocol you are using? How does it distinguish telent (port 23) from ssh

>(port
>> 22) from mail (port 25)?
>
>If that is the case, it won't work, (of course I wonder what the point of
>folding a port range down to a single port is?), but if it maps one-to-one,

>then of course, it will work, with the caveat about latencey.

Try it and tell us. I don't think it maps one to one. I suspect that because
it asks for a port range at source, then a single port at destination. But
then, I haven't tried it.
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Dan Langille

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Received on Fri Jul 2 12:30:57 1999