routing question

[Martin P. Hellwig]

Matt Smith wrote:
> Hello all,
>      I have a situation where I have my FreeBSD box that I want to run 2
> Unreal IRCD's on both using port 6667.  I've set up virtual IP
> addressing and one IRCD will run on 192.168.1.5:6667 and the other one
> will run on 192.168.1.7:6667.  my problem is how would I go about
> routing the traffic into the machine so both the IRCD's can be used by
> different people using just a linksys router (I don't think it's
> possible, but I thought I bounce it off you guys.
>
>   
Only if there on your own private subnet, otherwise you must have 
multiple public IP addresses and (nat)forward them to the private ones 
accordingly.
If you have only 1 public IP adress you could use multiple ports on the 
public IP and mapped them back to the right IP & ports, say (public 
IP):6667 -> 192.168.1.7:6667 and (public IP):6668 -> 192.168.1.7:6667 
however with this option you could have saved your hassle to create a 
alias and just used the 6668 port for your other daemon on 192.168.1.5

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