[AuckLUG] Dynamic IP Address XTRA

[Dominic Scheirlinck]

On 3/2/07, Kent Wilkinson <kent_wilkinson at xtra.co.nz> wrote:
> Port 80 is working now. I don't know why it wasn't working before, I
> was stuffing around with a lot of settings trying to get access to my
> server using the external IP from within the lan, not knowing that you
> cant.

My router is a Asus AAM6000EV. I've was pretty lucky: I bought it
without realising that it runs Busybox Linux (I just run `sh` from
telnet) and uses iptables for routing, which has worked brilliantly.

I was wondering if, with an iptables rule, I might be able to map the
external IP like Kent mentioned. Is it something inherent in the way
NAT is done that prevents it, or is it that most routers aren't
configurable enough?


Dominic