Yes, because the system is performing NAT, then (even at the most basic
level) a firewall is in place. What you will need to do is find the
configuration to disable, and make the netgear a passthrough device, so that
it doesn't perform any inspection at all, and treats the eth1 connection
strictly
Hey Joey,
You are correct, the Netgear has an uplink or WAN port that is connected to
eth1 of the LEAF box. The Netgear router has 4 wired ports and my game
server is connected to one of them. The Netgear hands out IP's to wireless
clients and to clients connected to the wired ports as well. The
Barry Baldwin wrote:
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> Would a better solution be to turn my leaf box into a wireless router and
> get rid of the Netgear?
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Or run your LEAF box as a bridge (which is fundimentally like a switch).
See http://shorewall.net/Bridge.html.
-Tom
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Sorry for comming late to this thread, but I thought I'd add my 2 cents.
Barry,
from your earlier description of your setup, I have a question and a possibly
suggestion. The Netgear device, I assume has atleast the one uplink port,
which is what's tied into the LEAF box, from there, the Netgea
Thanks Tom and Huy for your responses.
I tried changing my leaf box to forward port 6112 to 192.168.1.4 and then
set the Netgear router to port forward 6112 to my game server
(192.168.2.3). This didn't seem to work either. The FORWARD:REJECT errors
went away though. :) I'm not sure what is mea
