I have a client with half a dozen people who leave their desktops on and dial into them through modems evenings, weekends, and “work at home” days to log into the system and work with our accounting/personnel/database systems using PCAnywhere.
We’re going to a new ISP who is going to hook us up to a router connected to a T1 in the building. The router will be using NAT to translate internal IPs to external IPs and vice versa.
Now some of those users are asking if they can connect to their desktops here through the new router from their DSL or Cable connections at home; instead of using the modems, they think they could get better speed.
The ISP is telling us that in order to do that, we need dedicated IP addresses for the PCAnywhere desktops. It’s a couple of bucks more a month, which isn’t a big deal, but it doesn’t make sense to me. Why can’t NAT handle this without dedicated IP addresss for these destkops?
