Mmhhh, just a typo, IANA says 5631 and 5632 TCP and UDP. But you can forget UDP. GH ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alexis" <alexis@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <netfilter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 7:18 PM Subject: Re: IPTables, Linksys BEFSR41 and PCAnywhere > youre right, just dont forget that pc anywhere uses 2 ports, that i > think they are 5631 and 5631 tcp > > the linksys is with nat enabled? (its just to know, forwarding the ports > is enough to work) > > > On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 15:06, A. Clausen wrote: > > We are using netfilter to run a broadband wireless network. For customers > > wanting a public IP, we simply forward a public IP to an internal NAT IP. > > > > We have one customer who wants to use PCAnywhere remotely to contact his > > machine on the inside. As usual, I simply forwarded a public IP to the > > private IP. On the private IP they have a Linksys BEFSR41 router. > > > > Basically it looks like this: > > > > public ip ---> Linux netfilter router ---> private ip ---> Linksys > > router ---> customer's network > > > > He is insisting that he needs to actually have a public IP, rather than just > > having our Linux router forward a public IP to a private. We have other > > customers doing similiar things, one even opening up ports for MS-SQL > > server, without a problem, so I'm presuming that this customer is coming > > from a position of ignorance. But before I start digging deeper, I need > > confirmation that this Linksys router is not some bizarre piece of hardware. > -- > Alexis <alexis@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > >