Re: Netgear FVS318 problem sending log

From: E. (bellyup_at_thebar.now)
Date: 05/21/04 

Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 10:51:40 GMT

Mike wrote:

> E.,
>
>
>>The smtp server should be one you are allowed to use, preferably your ISP.
>
>
> My ISP's smtp server requires a password. So did the last two ISPs I've
> had. A quick check at work with a department full of programmers confirms
> that unless you are using a dial up account, the norm is to require
> authentication.

Hardly a 'norm'. Programmers *** it up, technicians fix it ( oops my
prejudices are showing;->)
The only time you should require outgoing SMTP auth is when your
external IP is NOT from your domain hosts address range - i.e. relaying.

   On the FVS318, with any version of software, there is no
> place to enter a password. The last smtp server that I know of that does
> not require authentication was my account at school, many years ago. If you
> know of a smtp server that does not, please let me know.
> Mike

FVS318's do not have that field at all, as you said.
Solutions are:
1. What Gerald said about asking Netgear to add the feature to their
firmware
or
2. running a mini-smtp/pop server inside the LAN and specifying that by
IP address in the FVS setup, then checking it via mail client.
E.