Topic: BT Business Broadband (UK)

[brianr]

Robert

Well, if you think about how the netmask is used to route an Ip address out to the LAN or to the WAN, then the problem is obvious, as the internal "gateway" in the SMEServer (the WAN NIC) is apparently a LAN address and therefore not routed to the WAN side.  I can't see how else it could work..

I also made this mistake in the early days, but it did not take me 6 days to find the problem - only a few hours!!

I promise you that SMEServer is worth the effort, I have around 15 "out on the field", and there are people here with hundreds of the things in service.

[icpix]

Brian----

That separate subnet (10.0.0.0) was the magic button I needed, what excellent advice Brian;~) Went like clockwork (as I'd originally expected/hoped for) after that...;~)

I recabled again and disturbed the (real) spiders for a second time. They'd had it just too good/quiet for the best part of several years.

Those 6 days included preparations and an interminable inexplicably extended delay in full propagation. My pictures' site and the email domain kept reverting back to the old IP and then renewing. Still unexplained but, thankfully, they've stopped misbehaving in that fashion.

[One thing is somewhat different]
My SMEServer control panel's email pop3 access setting always ran in the *intranet access only* position when I was on the rural wireless broadband network. This no longer works on the new BT broadband configuration and I've had to put it to the wider *public internet access* position. Is that a function of the reconfiguration required?

----best wishes, Robert