Hi there,

Can anyone recommend the best router for use with a small subnet of
globally addressable IPs, please? The office has a number of desktop
PCs which want to be NATted but there are two webservers and I'd like
to have requests on port 80 forwarded to the appropriate machine.

I know that with many routers I could allocate incoming packets on port
81 to the second webserver, but since my ISP (Eclipse) provide a small
subnet of static addresses for free, I'd prefer to port-forward based
also on which IP the request is made to. This saves the users having to
enter http://some.ip:81 to access their webmail.

I usually use Netgear DG834G routers, and have been surprised to find
today that this is unequal to the task - it doesn't even allow a port
on the router to be forwarded to a different port on an internal
machine. I have a Draytek Vigor 2600 at home which seems to do pretty
much what I want, but it's about 3 years old now, so I assume there are
now alternatives; I find the Vigor's interface slightly unintuitive -
although it's better than that on some other brands of routers, the
Negear's is far better. A wireless LAN router would be nice but isn't
necessary.

TIA for any advices,

Stroller.

On 7 Dec 2005 22:29, Stroller <stroller@bigfoot.com> wrote:

Rather than using port forwarding, the way I'd expect this to be done is
set the IP addresses of the two web servers to be IP1 and IP2 from your
allocated addresses from Eclipse. After all, that's *surely* why you
had more than a single IP address. Many users can do all they need
with just one address and NAT (where port forwarding then becomes a
necessary 'evil' :-) If you now plan to use port forwarding, the
extra IP addresses allocated are going unused, presumably. PGM

"Stroller" <stroller@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
news:784k63xih8.ln2@compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org...
When I got my eclipse account, I found it hard to find a router that would
support such a solution. I have a speedtouch 510 (old model) which is
supposed to support it but I have never got it to work. If you find one let
me know as I would like to have a siliar setup..

Draytek 2600+ routers, they cost a bit more but are more than worth it as
they come with tons of features amd support what you are asking.

On Thu, 8 Dec 2005 00:47:53 -0000, "David Wade" <g8mqw@yahoo.com>
wrote:

4.2.7 ST510 comes with a "custom" template to allow Non-NAT public
subnet configuration.

Even if you have an older Version 3 unit you should be able download
the version 4 template and look at the configuration and copy it for
the older model.

http://www.speedtouch.co.uk/download...mplates427.zip

On Thu, 8 Dec 2005 00:47:53 -0000, David Wade wrote:

I use Zen with the Speedtouch 510 (old model) with multiple IP's. Can be setup
using the web interface.

Doz

On Thu, 8 Dec 2005 00:47:53 -0000, David Wade wrote:

Sorry.. full details on how to do it here:


http://web.ukonline.co.uk/jjworld/

In article <qarfp1lbjn3iuropenfr7k32u9bidsbq2d@4ax.com>,
Moonshine <nospam@thanks.com> wrote:

He doesn't want a non-NAT configuration. He wants NAT with multiple
external addresses mapped to multiple internal addresses.

I too have been unable to persuade my ST510 (software 4.2.7.16.0) to
do it.

-- Richard

On 8 Dec 2005 23:16:25 GMT, richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
wrote:

OK, that ones easy with 4.2.7.16 firmware.

Just configure using "default" NAT template (or custom if you want to
change the private IP address range)

Then use the "Multi NAT" option on the web gui to map outside public
IP to required inside private IP.

Make sure you use the PPP interface not the default Ethernet interface
in the drop down, or it won't work.

In article <achip11v2nhabokb0o53k8gs9hm4in5q3o@4ax.com>,
Moonshine <nospam@thanks.com> wrote:

I expected that to work, but it didn't.

(I think it accepted the multi-nat mapping, but connections didn't
in fact work, but I'm not at home so I can't check that now.)

I didn't make that mistake.

-- Richard

On 2005-12-08 08:56:45 +0000, Doz <Doz@Doz.Doz> said:

Thanks! Any idea if the Thompson SpeedTouch 580 supports this, too? Or
if there's a wireless version of the 510 available? Unless I hear the
580 definately doesn't I'll surely buy one on Monday.

I appreciate all the help,

Stroller.

On 2005-12-08 02:18:13 +0000, "Sauron" <nazgul@war.org> said:

which is really VERY easy to use. I install those for customers all the
time, and going back to my own Vigor's to configure something last week
I found the interface quite clumsy.

From the screenshots at www.draytek.co.uk it doesn't seem to have
improved much, and there isn't really money in the budget for a Vigor -
my mistake for assuming the Netgear would do the job & quoting
accordingly. If necessary I will buy one of these (and sell the
Thompson onto another customer who doesn;t need multiple IPs) but I
think I'll try that first.

Stroller.

On Fri, 9 Dec 2005 22:49:42 +0000, Stroller <stroller@bigfoot.com>
wrote:


http://www.speedtouch.co.uk/download...3.0_public.pdf

HTH