From: gah@ugcs.caltech.edu   
      
   Jim Mack  wrote:   
   (snip)   
      
   > Shouldn't the default behavior of the SOHO box (no firewall, no NAT,   
   > no filters etc) be to route both ways between the networks defined on   
   > its WAN and LAN i/fs?   
      
   As far as I know, NAT is default on all such boxes.   
      
   I believe that my WRT54G has an option to choose between GATEWAY   
   and ROUTER (I think that is the terms they used.) but I haven't   
   tried it.   
      
   It might even be that some refuse to assign public IP addresses   
   to the LAN side.   
      
   > I have some suspect traceroute results that might indicate a problem   
   > in the ISP's route table, but I can't be sure I'm interpreting them   
   > correctly. Happy to supply real addresses and / or results if you'd   
   > like to see.   
      
   -- glen   
      
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