On January 15, 2004 01:52 pm, Alexis wrote: > i have a lot of customers with linksys devices and the port fowarding > works fine. > > i dont know why they said that linksys will not work. > > On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 15:30, A. Clausen wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Alexis" <alexis@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > To: <netfilter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 10:18 > > 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) > > > > That's good to hear. The problem is that it was another company that > > administrates their network and some specialized software, and he's > > insisting that the Linksys won't do this, when I've seen D-links and > > Livingstons work quite well. I did research, and PCAnywhere works fine > > through NAT networks, and I thought the claim pretty dubious, but > > sometimes dubious claims are right. Unh. the company I work for has over 50 of these in the field supporting *both* VPN and pcanywhere connections to remote sites. -- I don't use these connections myself, but I've seen them used by the support staff for the devices on the other end. Once programmed and locked up correctly they work wonderfully. -- could be our network support staff *might* have done something interesting to the code on board by I *highly* doubt that.... Alistair
