Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 10:49:22 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: nate@sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, nate@sri.MT.net, jmb@freefall.freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Networking / Routing question Message-ID: <199605160119.KAA01175@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199605160055.SAA21095@rocky.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at May 15, 96 06:55:51 pm
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Nate Williams stands accused of saying: > > > > I was going to suggest this, until it occurred to me that it would be > > impossible for the firewall to connect out through the router. (With a > > default route set to the router, packets originating on the firewall > > will have an unroutable source address, and responses will never come > > back.) > > The 'firewall' is our main email gateway box, and will end up doing all > of the 'ftp/www/dns/etc' service to the world. Argh. And I presume you can't use a private network inside the firewall? -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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