Re: Good alternative to BT2700HGV


"RobP" <rpowell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,

I have a multi IP business package from BT and have been using the
BT2700HGV which they supply. The functionality seems excellent but I'm
finding it so unreliable and I'm on my 2nd box already.

I'm looking to replace it but I'm struggling to find a model that
matches the functionality. My main problem in doing so is that I don't
the technical terms to describe what the BT box is doing. It's
allowing me to assign my Public IPs to internal servers, but retain
firewall functionality (so it's not just routing through to them with
non-nat). I've read about multi-nat and that seems close to it, but
that seems to mean you have a private IP range and your translate the
Public Ip to the Private Ip on the router, but with the BT box, the
internal boxes do actually have the Public IP on them.

Looking at Multi-Nat supporting routers, I've seen a Draytek and a
Netgear, although I purchased the Netgear FVS338 and then was told by
Netgear support it only currently supports Multi-nat if you use the
ethernet WAN port and not the internal ADSL modem.

So I'm looking for any suggestions on a good alternative to the
BT2700HGV?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

It's not so much what the BT2700HGV is doing that is important, it's what
you actually want to achieve. Clearly you have to lean the language to
express this.

Perhaps you should explain why you require your internal servers to have
public IP addresses, and what services you are making available on these
servers. You could then identify what type of traffic is allowed in and out
(i.e. you would have a specification for the firewall configuration).

It is quite possible that a Vigor router would then achieve what you want.

There are much more sophisticated routers from the likes of Cisco.

--
Graham J


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