26 Apr
2005
26 Apr
'05
15:14
On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 10:10 -0400, Ken Schneider wrote: > > Unfortunately the 64k line turns out to be not as reliable as it should > > (due to the telco, I suspect), but as it's a 24month contract, not much > > we can do. > Sure you can, keep complaining and threaten to go else where if they > don't provide the service they promised. I'm sure they promised > something better then 70% uptime. Actually I can't. The problem is not with the ISP - they're fanatastic - but with the phone company, who sucks but happens to be the only one here. > Perhaps this can be done through the use of a proxy server for outgoing > but not for incoming unless you have a fixed IP on the DSL line. Don't have a fixed IP on the ADSL, but that's not the issue (been using dyndns on ADSL and it works well). I'm trying to figure out how to get the linux box know which interface the connection is made on, and reply via the same interface. The ADSL firewall masquerades, and forwards traffic on port 25 to port 25 on the maiserver's internal interface (eth1, say). So if, say hotmail's mailserver connects via the ADSL, the linux box still sees the connection from mxwhatever.hotmail.com, and tries to respond via eth0 through the leased line, because that's it's default gateway. I'm sure the solution is simple, but I keep missing it. Thanks -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy SagacIT (Pty) Ltd hansdp at sagacit dot com