gateway/routing questions
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
chad at shire.net
Fri Nov 7 01:25:16 PST 2003
I used to have a situation like this but it was a few years ago and I
have forgotten how to set this up in detail.
I have a class C network (public) and I have a FreeBSD box with lots of
aliases on it providing various services. There is also a Mandrake
Linux box that belongs to a customer sitting on my net as well. My
provider where I am colocated provides the gateway for my class C in
his fancy shmancy switch :-) .
I want to add another box (a Linux one unfortunately for some high
performance Java 1.4 stuff that won't run on FreeBSD) but I want to
make it so that it is on a private class C that should co-exist with my
regular class C.
Lets say my public one is (this is made up) 128.1.1.0. This is where
the FBSD box lives. I want to overlay 192.168.1.0 on my LAN. I will
give my FBSD box the address (alias) of 192.168.1.1 . The new Linux
box will have a bunch of addresses starting at 192.168.1.10 .
The Linux box on the 192.168 network should not have any access going
out (so I don't need NAT for example) nor of course coming in. But the
FBSD box should continue to have its normal public access on 128.1.1.0
network plus access the Linux box on 192.168. The Linux box should be
able to talk to the FBSD box.
I think that all I need to do is add an alias address (and a static
route out the ethernet port?) to my BSD box and it should work. I
don't need anything else to have the BSD box live in this private
network as well as the public one, since the private network does not
need to get out at all.
Is this reasoning correct? In my test lab here I cannot recreate this
exactly given some restrictions on how it is set up and so when I go
and take the Linux box and stick it in the data room on Friday it
needs to work without lots of trouble :-)
thanks
Chad
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