IPF and Routing
Luke Kearney
lukek at meibin.net
Tue Oct 7 05:28:47 PDT 2003
Thanks for your response. It may well be that I end up doing exactly
that to fix this issue in the short term. But there are some internal
resources that I don't want to have live IP's so I am trying for the
workable NAT solution.
Regards,
LukeK
On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 07:20:15 -0500
"Minnesota Slinky" <mnslinky at yahoo.com> granted us these pearls of wisdom:
> Why bother doing nat? You *could* just setup a DHCP server on the
> gateway for the remaining IP address and when the other 14 machines came
> online, they could dynamically pull the IP addy. Just set some very
> strict rules on the incoming packets to the rest of the internal
> network. This is a similar thing to what I did when I had an 8-block
> from Qwest a couple years ago.
>
> HTH
>
> Eric F Crist
> AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc
> (952) 403-9000
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Luke Kearney
> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 9:12 PM
> To: FreeBSD Questions
> Subject: IPF and Routing
>
>
>
> Hello,
> I have question regarding IPNat and routing. The situation is that I
> need to setup a network where each machine gets a unique global IP
> address from behind a firewall which performs NAT. I have 16 addresses
> so my question is can I alias 14 addresses to the primary nic and then
> config each private address to map directly to one global address or
> have I missed something fundamental about this ?
>
> Any advice is appreciated.
>
> TIA LukeK
>
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