From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 26 21:21:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cody.jharris.com (cody.jharris.com [205.238.128.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3C8F37B422 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 21:21:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nick@rogness.net) Received: from localhost (nick@localhost) by cody.jharris.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f3R5UPS53823; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 00:30:25 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from nick@rogness.net) Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 00:30:24 -0500 (CDT) From: Nick Rogness X-Sender: nick@cody.jharris.com To: Chris Hardie Cc: Tony Landells , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Confusion about router/firewall traffic from router itself In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Chris Hardie wrote: > > >From the sound of things, I'm assuming that our setup is non-standard. > > I'm interested to know what a "typical" setup might be that would > eliminate the need for my earlier questions. It seems that most folks > would have similar starting points: an upstream ISP with a router that > you plug into, a firewall that needs to be the entry point for all > network traffic, and a need to access network services from inside the > network. What would one do rather than plug the link into the > router/firewall? The part that caught me was the fact that you are peering with your ISP with private IP's. Typically, They interconnect with you at 1 point with 1 public IP (normally a T1 or something) and you request additional public space from them or ARIN. Things get difficult when trying to multi-home your network with other ISP's and your carrying Private IP space in your routing tables. May I ask who is your ISP? Nick Rogness - Keep on Routing in a Free World... "FreeBSD: The Power to Serve!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message