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To: dybdahl who wrote (62264)	10/28/2001 5:07:35 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Lars - I am using an XP box with 2 NICs, one connected to a DSL line which passes a DHCP address, and the other to my home network, and the instant messaging works fine. The box I am currently typing on has 192.168.1.105 as its address after NAT, while the real DSL address is a 64.xxx.xxx.xxx address. The instant messaging works just fine through that. I assume that the XP box does some special translations to make that work since it obviously does not present the internally generated NAT address outward. I have also used a Linksys router and had to use the "DMZ" setting to get the messaging to work. I have not tried this with anyone not running XP except my brother, who is running Win2K on a cable modem with a fixed IP address. There are probably lots of "gotchas" in the new scheme but it is at least as easy as most VPN connections. BTW, VPN works just fine through the same rig, in fact works just fine with NAT on both sides. I have only sympathy for the problems IT shops have in maintaining order in the face of hardware, software, network and user configuration changes. Not a job I would want.