RE: [TCLUG:17090] DSL with Cisco 675

["Carl Patten" <cpatte@trimodalinc.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Debertin [mailto:danield@bitstream.net]

> What are the issues that people are seeing with the PAT mechanism on the
> 675? The same old passive-FTP issues that plague most NAT implementations?

In CBOS 2.1.0, passive-FTP was broken.  I wasn't able to do an FTP Linux
install off of Real-Time's server, for instance.  It started working better
with 2.2.0.  Haven't tried 2.3.0 yet.

I've had issues where I couldn't delete a static port mapping in the NAT
table until I did a "write" and "reboot".

There's about 30 users here sharing access to the Internet over a Cisco 675,
768/768 DSL line, using NAT(PAT).  It's running well, barring the occasional
US West snafu :(  We were originally using US West as both line provider and
ISP, but switched ISPs to Golden Gate because US West DSL tech support was
geared to single-user, home-user accounts and couldn't even begin to help
with the kind of stuff I was doing such as running a mail server behind the
675.  Golden Gate, on the other hand, has been very responsive and flexible.

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Carl Patten
I.T. Manager
Trimodal Inc.