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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>If you don't require LAN access then NAT Loopback
isn't needed.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=linux.deamon@gmail.com
href="mailto:linux.deamon@gmail.com">Guardian</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=opensim-users@lists.berlios.de
href="mailto:opensim-users@lists.berlios.de">opensim-users@lists.berlios.de</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, August 21, 2011 7:43
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Opensim-users] Awaiting
region handshake</DIV>
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<DIV>Hi again all,</DIV>
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<DIV>I'm really struggling to find a router in NZ that supports NAT
Loopback... I spent over an hour with Linksys and they pretty much said none
of their routers support it apart from the E2000 which can't be connected to
any NZ ISP's...</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I was just looking at the opensim wiki again, and notice it now
says:</DIV>
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<DIV>"This is an issue since each region has to be specify an IP address for
the client to connect. This is the ExternalHostName parameter in a regions
config file (e.g. bin/Regions/Regions.ini). In the absence of NAT loopback, if
a forward facing IP address is specified (such as 199.149.252.44) then
external clients will be able to connect to the region but clients on your
local network will not. If the internal address were put in ExternalHostName
instead (e.g. 192.168.2.40) then viewers on the local network will be able to
connect but viewers from an external network would not."</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>My Issue was I couldnt connect to the sim from outside even when the
external IP address was specified in regions.</DIV>
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<DIV>I don't need to connect to the sim from the LAN, only the WAN so is NAT
loopback still an issue?<BR><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>