>This consultant has insisted that the second network card in the server,
the
>one that plugs into the modem, has a public IP address and he would prefer
>if NAT were turned off at the modem. Is this possible? Through some of the
>discussions we have had here about the only way to do it would be to give
>the modem's internal interface a public IP address and leave NAT on, but
>that really is pointless.

The obvious answer is to install an internal PCI ADSL modem in the server,
that way NAT and the issues it presents are under the control of the
software on the server.

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Received on Thu Dec 21 13:22:45 2000