routers??

[user0182]

hey SirDice,

obviously, i have read this article. what i really need is to set up a LAN, where i can play with these things.

but, i was wondering about things like; if i were to write a client server application where the client program sent data to the server on a certain client port then the server read that data and responded to a different client port, and the client machine was sitting behind a router using NAPT Overloading, am i right in assuming that this would not work and confuse NAPT?

thus, any server that tries to send a response to a different port than the port that the request was sent from would fail where NAPT is involved? as a router using NAPT, maps client "IP Address/Port combinations" to it's own router ports.


- user0182

btw - i also wanted to ask what networking hardware you guys consider to be the best, Linksys, Belkin, Netgear, D-Link etc.