From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 15 18:10:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA08813 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 15 May 1996 18:10:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA08749; Wed, 15 May 1996 18:09:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id KAA01175; Thu, 16 May 1996 10:49:23 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199605160119.KAA01175@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Networking / Routing question To: nate@sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 10:49:22 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, nate@sri.MT.net, jmb@freefall.freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199605160055.SAA21095@rocky.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at May 15, 96 06:55:51 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 [[