D-Link DI-804 and Linksys BEFSR41 NAT problem

From: Eric Chang (echang_at_eatools.com)
Date: 08/30/03 

Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 19:33:53 GMT

I have a Linksys BEFSR41 as my firewall/router. Everything works fine
and I got great performance compared to my old D-Link DI-804.
The D-Link DI-804 did not work if my Linux box has over 128MB memory
which is a very wired problem and took me two years to finally figure it
out.
The new D-Link BIOS fix the problem, but the performance is terrible.
I got average 900ms latency for pinging www.yahoo.com, compared to
150ms-300ms with Linksys BEFSR41 (V3).
My problem is, the Linksys do too much NAT for me. It translate my
local connection (say from a windows box on 192.168.1.4) to 192.168.1.1,
which is the Linksys itself. The problem is, it does not always do that.
Here is my pop3 log:

Aug 30 12:02:53 w3 ipop3d[23523]: Login user=brian host=home2000.eatools.com
[192.168.1.4] nmsgs=0/0
Aug 30 12:02:54 w3 ipop3d[23527]: Login user=marry host=linksys.eatools.com
[192.168.1.1] nmsgs=0/0
Aug 30 12:02:54 w3 ipop3d[23527]: Logout user=sales host=linksys.eatools.com
[192.168.1.1] nmsgs=0 ndele=0

All 3 accounts are from the same windows box, but have 2 different IP
addresses on my
Linux.
Any help will really appreciated.

Thanks

Eric 

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