[Gllug] Odd routing problem

[Matthew King]

Peter Joanes <pjoanes at hotmail.com> writes:

> On Saturday 02 February 2008 06:06, John Winters wrote:
>> Ben Whyte wrote:
>> > using the public address, <...> i want to read mail both internal 
>> > to network and external 
>>
>> Won't work.
>
> It will if your router is sufficiently configurable that it'll let you apply 
> the port forwarding rules to internal connections (and change the source 
> address to its own).
> E.g. I have a Speedtouch 780wl, which accepts the following command to achieve 
> this:
> 	=> ip config natloopback=enabled

I'm curious as to why most el cheapo routers don't do this. Whether it's
a good idea or not, the sort of person who relies [solely] on an el
cheapo router is exactly the sort of person who could benefit from this.

Matthew

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