From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 17 16:30:47 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62DD116A565 for ; Sat, 17 Jun 2006 16:30:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from richard@firebadger.net) Received: from mail.firebadger.net (82-69-4-157.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.4.157]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5086D43D4C for ; Sat, 17 Jun 2006 16:30:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from richard@firebadger.net) Received: (qmail 32148 invoked by uid 1011); 17 Jun 2006 16:31:54 -0000 Received: from 127.0.0.1 by brian.firebadger.net (envelope-from , uid 1009) with qmail-scanner-1.25-st-qms (clamdscan: 0.88.1/1449. spamassassin: 3.1.1. perlscan: 1.25-st-qms. Clear:RC:1(127.0.0.1):. Processed in 0.160569 secs); 17 Jun 2006 16:31:54 -0000 X-Antivirus-FIREBADGER-Mail-From: richard@firebadger.net via brian.firebadger.net X-Antivirus-FIREBADGER: 1.25-st-qms (Clear:RC:1(127.0.0.1):. Processed in 0.160569 secs Process 32142) Received: from localhost.firebadger.net (HELO 192.168.1.15) (richard@firebadger.net@127.0.0.1) by mail.firebadger.net with SMTP; 17 Jun 2006 16:31:53 -0000 Received: from 192.168.1.33 (SquirrelMail authenticated user richard@firebadger.net) by 192.168.1.15 with HTTP; Sat, 17 Jun 2006 17:31:53 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <1406.192.168.1.33.1150561913.squirrel@192.168.1.15> Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 17:31:53 +0100 (BST) From: "Richard Collyer" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Subject: Moving From NAT to Multiple IPs - Server Considerations X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: richard@firebadger.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 16:30:47 -0000 Hello, I've recently started to work from home so the limitations of one IP address are really starting to gripe me. I've asked my ISP to order me a block of 8 ips. What considerations so I be looking at when managing the IP server address change. I'm not too concerned about the services going offline as they are not used for anything critical and in any case services such as SMTP and incoming e-mail have fail safes provided by my dns provider. Do I need to install IPFirewall or will the server just close all the ports that it is not using and be fine and dandy that way. Any recommendations on good articles for installing IPFW. I've googled but I am looking for something which allows me to do the basics but also talks about the more advanced stuff such as blocking logins on SSH after x attempts. How do I manage the change from NAT to multi Ips. Does the server still get given an internal IP address on the lan and then the router redirects the external IP to that machine or does the machine have to be told that it is now listening on IPs x, y and z. Any help appreciated. Cheers Richard -- Richard Collyer richard@firebadger.net