Poll: Both ends behind NAT...

My partner and I use SF behind NAT routers on both ends. He has a DSL
modem that converts a public address to several local addresses, I have
to use ISDN (anything faster not available in our rural area) with a
similar setup. We had considerable trouble getting SF working at first,
but with perseverance we found a way. I had to tell my Netgear RT-328 to
forward all unrecognized packets to one private address and make sure
that my box was at that address. But that's simply a limitation of my
ISDN router. A smarter router could easily make this  more flexible. 

I don't see why NAT is such an insurmountable problem! We simply need
NAT server hardware and software that will keep track of where packets
should be forwarded. Until we can get readily available modem/routers
that make the job easier. Why couldn't we set up an old slow box with
two NICs and some Linux code that would track and route packets from the
public port to the local ports?

 
- Tom Scott


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