Re: Universal Connection Woes

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm also interested in this. Have 2 400s behind a firewall. We have a Cisco
675 DSL modem that has a 255.255.255.248 subnet on our side of it, and
those are true Internet addresses. The firewall (LinkSys DSL/cable gateway
thingy) has it's WAN port with one of these public addresses. The 400s are
ont he inside of this device.

When I had one of the 400s outside this firewall (open to the public) I was
able to set up and use the VPN (Universal Connection) methodology for PTF
orders. Now that I'm behind the firewall, neither machine completes a
SNDPTFORD.

At 02:41 PM 8/12/02 -0500, you wrote:
>I'm having a devil of a time setting up the Universal Connection to
>IBM.  I'm about to call Supportline 'cause the farther I go, the more
>confused I get.  I've looked at articles, the redbook, and I thought I
>knew what I was doing.  I tried the Universal Connection Wizard a number
>of times but never can get it to work.  I tried the 'direct connection'
>as well as 'multi-hop connection.'  I don't do router configs so I even
>paid the consultant to open the ports the redbook said were required
>(for direct connection that is).
>
>Before I call supportline though, I gotta get a couple of things cleared
>up in my head.  What we have is a Cisco 1605 router.  This has 2
>ethernet cards in it, 1 'internal' and 1 'external'.  The internal is IP
>address 192.168.0.250.  The external is IP address 216.xxx.xxx.xxx.
>(The iSeries is 192.168.0.1 with a gateway of 192.168.0.250 which is the
>internal side of the router).
>
>Based on the redbook description and pictures <g>, I did not take this
>to be a 'multi-hop connection', but took it as a 'direct connection'.  I
>didn't think that this single router was 2 routers like the example in
>the redbook, because both routers in the redbook examples had routable
>IP addresses like 123.12.xxx.xxx and not internal only addresses like
>192.168.xxx.xxx.  The redbook also called this the DMZ (Demilitarized
>Zone) and I never considered us as having a DMZ.  Am I right on this or
>am I really confused?  I don't want to pay a big consultant fee to set
>this up when it seems like it should be relatively simple.
>
>Thanks.
>
>--
>Jeff Crosby
>Dilgard Frozen Foods, Inc.
>P.O. Box 13369
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