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Date:      Thu, 17 Aug 2000 13:50:48 -0700
From:      "Crist J . Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net>
To:        Steve Lewis <nepolon@systray.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Q: network topologies, routing, TCP/IP
Message-ID:  <20000817135048.A87786@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10008171037070.4392-100000@greg.ad9.com>; from nepolon@systray.com on Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 10:50:56AM -0700
References:  <20000817004403.F28027@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.10008171037070.4392-100000@greg.ad9.com>

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On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 10:50:56AM -0700, Steve Lewis wrote:

[snip]

> I was planning to use redirect_port instead, because there is only a
> narrow list of ports on that bastion host that I want to be outwardly
> accessible (port 80 and a couple other web interfaces), but there are more
> services running on the box for the benefit of those inside the LAN (a
> RDBMS, source management, etc).  I have used redirect_port successfully in
> the past. Any reason I shouldn't use it here?

No, redirect_port should be just fine. I tend to save redirect_port
for when mapping different port numbers from one machine to the other,
but I think it's just an ease of administration/asthetic issue. I am
not aware of technical reasons.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.com


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