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Date:      Tue, 5 Jun 2001 14:34:52 +1200
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
To:        Thierry Black <thierryblack@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: how to hook up a firewall?
Message-ID:  <20010605143452.A13402@itouchnz.itouch>
In-Reply-To: <F8bLAX3cf3ednHM3SOl000156f0@hotmail.com>; from thierryblack@hotmail.com on Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 05:49:33PM -0600
References:  <F8bLAX3cf3ednHM3SOl000156f0@hotmail.com>

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On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 05:49:33PM -0600, Thierry Black wrote:
> Thanks to you for answering my other questions before! this group is a great 
> help.
> 
> I have a small subnet of public addresses,
> like 172.168.0.128/28  So, 128 is network,
> 129-142 are usable, and 143 is broadcast.
> 
> I want to put up firewall in between and have it route all traffic to and 
> from this network but I want an other machine (web server) on the same 
> segment as the firewall, but not behind the firewall. all other machines 
> should be behind firewall.
> 
> so something like this:
> 
> gateway 1 (isp manage)
>           |
>   +-------+----------+
>   |                  |
> firewall         web server
>   |
>   +-----+-----+-- - - -
>   |     |     |
> other machines behind firewall

I would put *all* machines behind the f/w, and then use natd
-redirect_address + ip-aliasing on the f/w so that the effective setup
will still look like the above.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
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