w2ltu
join:2004-06-19
New York, NY
|  [netopia] Netopia 3341-ELK .......NAT Feature?
Is there anyway to determine if the Earthlink distributed Netopia Model 3341-ELK has the NAT (Network Address Translation) feature? If so,is there a way to determine if this feature is "ON"? Neither Netopia nor Earthlink seem to be able to answer these questions. Thanks. |
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LBB
Premium,MVM
join:2001-06-14
Bama
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| It should be simple really, just go to the Command Prompt and type in ipconfig and see if your IP address is a LAN IP or WAN IP.. Private IP addys (behind NAT) are 192.168.xx.xx, 172.xx.xx.xx or 10.xx.xx.xx. Anything else would tell you that NAT is turned off.
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w2ltu
join:2004-06-19
New York, NY
|   Thanks LLB. Both IP Address & Default gateway Address begin with the numbers 172 and Subnet Mask starts with 255...So I presume I have NAT and it is "ON".One other question....Does NAT provide a type of Firewall by hiding the Internal IP Addresses? Or do I still need a separate Firewall....Thanks again. |
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dgilbert
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join:2002-06-15
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NAT is a basic firewall. it protects you from inbound problems, but does nothing to stop OUTbound worms. personally, i use Zone Alarm on each machine, but you may want to get a hardware firewall. it is strictly up to your preference.
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