From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 10 16:52:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA11565 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 16:52:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA11471 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 16:52:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id BAA16110 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 11 Dec 1997 01:51:58 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.5) id BAA09610; Thu, 11 Dec 1997 01:48:12 +0100 (MET) Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 01:48:12 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199712110048.BAA09610@uriah.heep.sax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E References: <199712092336.AAA04738@uriah.heep.sax.de> From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Subject: Re: I seriously need some networking help X-Original-Newsgroups: local.freebsd.hackers To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk "J. Weatherbee - Senior Systems Architect" wrote: > I attempted making the firewall to router link a 192.168.x.x network, and > using dual ip on it, unfortunately it interesting that the link gets > published by traceroute for instance from the outside world. Sure, but that's only a cosmetical problem. I've seen 10.* intermediate network addressess even on major Internet relays when tracerouting. It should be totally acceptable for an endpoint transient network. Nobody has any need to access the interfaces on this network. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)