Serial NAToutside to inside., Is there a better way of routing?

[Guest_imported]

Hellow people.
I have a 1600 router that connects to the internet using NAT. Due to it's lack of Ethernet ports, I route it to a 2600 using a serial. Serial using HDLC at T1. Again the 2600 using NAT. That means both router using NAT which is inefficient and cause some sending problems.

Cisco 1600
Serial0 --- NAT --- Internet
(inside) (outside)

Cisco 2600

Lan --- NAT --- Serial1
(inside) (outside)

Which both serials are connected.
I wish to know a much efficient way of getting my Lan on the net.

 

[jeter]

How is your network setup? If this was a normal LAN I would set the pc's gateway to the ethernet of the internet router and setup a route on the internet router to go out the WAN port. NAT may be needed depending if you have a public or static ip address on the ethernet port. “Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all”

Fisher CCNA,(CCNP-Routing)
UOP Student BSIT

 

[ChrisAC]

As far as I'm aware the 1600 has one ethernet port! Why not use that to connect to your LAN? Or, use the 2600 to connect to the internet. No need to use two routers!!

Chris.
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Chris Andrew, CCNA
chrisac@gmx.co.uk
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[Guest_imported]

I need the 1600 for the ip address dhcp. Yea it's a long way to my lan. But I had already rectify it getting myself a new IOS upgrade.

But now if the clients do IRC, The Clients won't be able to intiate DCC chat ot sends. Any Ideas? Below is my sh run.


ip dhcp excluded-address 192.168.100.1 192.168.100.10
!
ip dhcp pool MYCLIENTS
network 192.168.100.0 255.255.255.0
dns-server xxx.156.1.58 xxx.156.1.68
default-router 192.168.100.1
domain-name xxx.com.xx
!

interface Ethernet0/0
mac-address 0009.2dca.f3ff
ip address dhcp client-id Ethernet0/0 hostname Server
ip nat outside
no ip route-cache
no ip mroute-cache
full-duplex
no cdp enable

interface Ethernet0/1
ip address 192.168.100.1 255.255.255.0
ip nat inside
no ip route-cache
no ip mroute-cache
full-duplex
no cdp enable
!
ip default-gateway 218.186.112.1
ip nat inside source list 100 interface Ethernet0/0 overload
ip classless
!
access-list 100 permit ip 192.168.100.0 0.0.0.255 any