[BlueOnyx:02550] Re: New Cisco Router Help With BO

[Steve Howes]

On 2 Oct 2009, at 21:05, Chuck Tetlow wrote:

> ESMPT and SMTP are essentially the same thing.  And since they both  
> use TCP Port 25 - they ARE the same thing to the router.  That  
> protocol name in the end of a Cisco configuration line only  
> identified a port name instead of a port number.

Yea. esmtp covers smtp.

> And the "ip inspect" configuration is part of the Intrusion  
> Detection System (IDS) and firewall capability built into the  
> router.  Its not what you want.

Not part of the IDS, its part of the stateful firewall. firewalling !=  
intrusion detection.

> You seem to want to set the router to "bridged" mode - if you're  
> trying to get it to act the same way your previous modem did.  But  
> in that case, why have a router in the first case?  You could do it  
> a whole lot cheaper and simpler with a modem.

But a whole lot less flexible. You can put a cisco in 'no-nat' mode,  
depending on how many outside IP's are available. Failing that you can  
do port-level NAT ('port forwards'). Send your config to steve at  
geekinter.net and i'll take a lookse.

S