Do I need to setup an IP Alias

[stheg olloydson]

>We have a ADSL internet connection served through a
>Linksys router setup as the primary gateway on IP
>92.168.1.1. Our ISP has allocated a non-filtered
>fixed IP address to us. I have set-up the FreeBSD box

>with a fixed IP of 192.168.1.50 subnet 255.255.255.0,
>and configured the router to place the server in the
>DMZ, i.e. direct all incoming traffic to it.
>My question is should I setup the FBSD machine to
>recognize the fixed internet IP address allocated to
>us by the ISP as an Alias on the interface card?
>Everything seems to work fine even I don't do this.

Hello,

Did they allocate more than one? I mean, one to be the
oif of the Linksys and another one that you can assign
as an alias on the FBSD box? If so, you _can_. But
that should only be neccesary if you need to access
the box from the internal network via the external
network. On the other hand, you don't even need to put
the server in the DMZ. The Linksys should let you do
port forwarding for just the port(s) you actually need
exposed. The more layers between your server and the
Internet, the better.


HTH,

Stheg


		
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