Re: (ASCEND) Pipeline 50 and NAT

[David Lloyd <david@inxpress.net>]

On Thu, 11 Nov 1999 hjong@triview.nl wrote:

>I'm using a Pipeline 50 to connect our network to the Internet. We have an
>ISP account that includes Internet access via the Pipeline 50, SMTP e-mail
>relay, and domain name registration. We also got 32 IP addresses to use on
>our internal systems. The company is growing, and soon we'll be out of
>addresses.
>
>I could request more IP numbers from the ISP, but I'd rather implement NAT.
>Now the Pipeline manuals are a bit fuzzy on this (well, not just this...);
>AFAI understand, when I use NAT on the Pipeline, it will request IP
>addresses from the remote server for each connection. Is this correct?
>At the moment, the Pipeline has a fixed address, and I don't think the ISP
>does DHCP on these links, so I'd be stuck.

You can go either way... NAT can run with either a fixed address or a
dynamic address (at least, so I'm given to understand).

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