From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 17 18:53:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.129.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01C0C37BC61 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 18:51:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailhost01.reflexnet.net (mailhost01.reflexnet.net [64.6.192.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F1E56E3DF5 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 13:51:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com ([64.6.211.149]) by mailhost01.reflexnet.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.197.19); Thu, 17 Aug 2000 13:49:44 -0700 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by 149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA87836; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 13:50:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 13:50:48 -0700 From: "Crist J . Clark" To: Steve Lewis Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Q: network topologies, routing, TCP/IP Message-ID: <20000817135048.A87786@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <20000817004403.F28027@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from nepolon@systray.com on Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 10:50:56AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message