[ale] Stumper for you: XDMCP and NAT

[Dow Hurst]

You need to either run a VPN or use SSH.  Would the lbxproxy work for 
you?  I've never configured it and it would have to run on the firewall 
so probably is a no no.
Dow


Byron A Jeff wrote:

>It all started with I bought a Netgear wireless broadband router for $36 from
>the CompUSA. I figured it would allow me to replace my failing network switch
>and add wireless connectivity for my laptop and ipaq.
>
>Well Netgear, much to their credit, disallows the disabiling of NAT on the
>unit. Since I wasn't planning on replacing my Smoothwall router, due to its
>location in my basement, this has turned out to be somewhat of an annoyance.
>I got over the first hurdle by substituting the router in the IP slot of the
>primary machine I'm connecting to the router. I then opened up all of the 
>ports to point back to the original machine. So to the rest of my home network
>the machine is back in the same IP slot as before.
>
>Except for XDMCP. The silly protocol embeds the IP of the host in the packet.
>Sigh. That means that it doesn't work via NAT because the address of the packet
>is different than the address embedded in the XDMCP request.
>
>Any ideas how to resolve?
>
>BAJ
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