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Date:      Tue, 07 Oct 2003 21:21:50 +0900
From:      Luke Kearney <lukek@meibin.net>
To:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: IPF and Routing
Message-ID:  <20031007211958.B2F5.LUKEK@meibin.net>
In-Reply-To: <001f01c38ccd$638ec0b0$450cf518@grog>
References:  <20031007110654.B2D9.LUKEK@meibin.net> <001f01c38ccd$638ec0b0$450cf518@grog>

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Thanks for your response. It may well be that I end up doing exactly
that to fix this issue in the short term. But there are some internal
resources that I don't want to have live IP's so I am trying for the
workable NAT solution.

Regards,

LukeK


On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 07:20:15 -0500
"Minnesota Slinky" <mnslinky@yahoo.com> granted us these pearls of wisdom:

> Why bother doing nat?  You *could* just setup a DHCP server on the
> gateway for the remaining IP address and when the other 14 machines came
> online, they could dynamically pull the IP addy.  Just set some very
> strict rules on the incoming packets to the rest of the internal
> network.  This is a similar thing to what I did when I had an 8-block
> from Qwest a couple years ago.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Eric F Crist
> AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc
> (952) 403-9000 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Luke Kearney
> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 9:12 PM
> To: FreeBSD Questions
> Subject: IPF and Routing
> 
> 
> 
> Hello,
> I have question regarding IPNat and routing. The situation is that I
> need to setup a network where each machine gets a unique global IP
> address from behind a firewall which performs NAT. I have 16 addresses
> so my question is can I alias 14 addresses to the primary nic and then
> config each private address to map directly to one global address or
> have I missed something fundamental about this ?
> 
> Any advice is appreciated.
> 
> TIA LukeK
> 
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