Whats up Ascend users... I have an issue with a MAX-1800 and NAT. I am doing IP only and have 8 bri interfaces. I am running 6.0.4 fbck.m18 What I am trying to do is dial into a partner site and hide all my traffic as a 172. addr. to this network. I am not being assigned an IP address by this partner. I have my local net, with hosts and the MAX. I can successfully connect to the partner and ftp to their ftp servers. I have static routes on the MAX for their servers to the LAN address of their router specified in my connection profile. Pretty simple connection. In my connection profile, under IP options, I have the LAN address of the remote end router, and as the IF ADRS, I have an IP on the same network, which is the address I want our traffic hidden behind. I have tried this scenario with and without an IF adrs in the connection profile. They have another set of servers I need to reach. I will only be able to reach if I am hidden behind a 172 address, since they will not add static routes for my return traffic, since the are publicly routable (which I suppose is against their policies). I have used NAT to connect pipelines to ISPs and hide a localnet behind the ISP assigned addr, but the MAX is not setup like this, and when I enable NAT weird things happen. I have download m18net.pdf and read it. First thing I do is : go to ETHERNET-----> NAT and turn Routing to YES. for Profile, I put the ethernet connection profile name. LAN is set to Single IP addr As soon as I save this, my default route gets changed to the LAN address on the connection profile. Since this is a problem, I disabled the default route and added static routes back to my local nets, so if the default route gets mangled, Im not stuck to console only. For the FR address ( and I know Im not using FrameRelay), if I leave at 0.0.0.0 or put an IP address on the same network as the BRI interface (LAN Address) I am able to ping the first set of servers, but FTP does not work. I can not ping the second set of servers or FTP. So my questions are this: 1) Is what I am trying to do possible? 2) Will I need to add static mappings back to the hosts that need to access hosts using this connection? Is appears as if the return traffic is not making it. 3) Why does the default route change when I enable NAT and traffic is sent to this remote network? Any help is greatly appreciated. -Rob Robert Geller, CCSA, CCSE Sportsline Network Operations 2200 West Cypress Creek Rd. Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33309 -954-351-2120 x4528 AIM: rg1454bb ICQ: 451690 http://cbs.sportsline.com ++ Ascend Users Mailing List ++ To unsubscribe: send unsubscribe to ascend-users-request at bungi.com Archives: http://www.nexial.com/mailinglists/