On Wednesday 16 January 2002 11:29, Mark Kilmartin wrote:
> I know that the firewall is not dropping them.
>> But I can't be sure of the ISPs routers.
>> It makes sense (sort of) to me that a route that see traffic coming from
> a.b.c.x but it knows that it should only see traffic from d.e.f.x then
> it would drop it?
Yeah, I imagine the ISP's routers would drop that stuff.
Another thought occurs to me: When you tried the source NAT, did you
try setting the source address to the address of the incoming router rather
than the address of the firewall's interface? Presumably the returning
packets would then get routed to the right interface...
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