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- From: dos@major.panix.com (Dave O'Shea)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
- Subject: Address conversion
- Message-ID: <giT8wB1w165w@major.panix.com>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 13:47:51 GMT
- Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
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- I've got the enviable task of connecting together two networks that were
- designed separately. One is on the internet, so they've kept their
- addressing clean and up to specs, but the other one is a small
- stand-alone network that has its own rather unique addressing scheme.
-
- Changing the addresses on the network is not really an option; the app
- they have is hard-coded to look for certain addresses, and rewriting it
- would be more troublesome than it's worth.
-
- What I'm looking for is something along the lines of a router than could
- hold an address translation table (which would, of course, have to be
- generated by hand, but that's no problem), and convert addresses going
- in both directions.
-
- As this will be used to pass only some SNMP traffic, performance isn't
- an issue; 50-100 packets/second would be more than sufficient.
-
- Does anyone know if such an animal exists? I've heard of folks doing
- something along these lines with what they called a gateway, but I've
- been unable to trace down any commercial source for a product such as
- this.
-