Chris Hunt wrote:
>
> Cal, What I would like to do is skip the proxy server. If IMgate
> could/would NAT with two NICs. I have a spare public IP that I could use
> for this purpose. I'm still having a 1.1 hour delay with a mail list
> w/only 24 members and maybe this would help.
> Chris
>
I still don't see a problem. It's not NAT in this case: IMGate has one
NIC on your "spare" public IP, but points to IMail out the other NIC on
your private network. The concerns would be (1) making it work. FreeBSD
probably can handle addressing other machines on multiple NICs, but I
don't know that -- see the Unix gurus for that setup. So far I'm
strictly Mac, NetWare, and NT :-)
(2) Security issues. Again, the Free BSD community would better answer
this one, but you are creating a route from the public IP space into
your private network, through the IMGate box, in essence making IMGate a
mail protocol proxy itself. Take care to secure this box, including port
filtering on any nearby routers to help lock it down.
I hear Len saying this ought to be on his list, not IMail's, but the
general question might be of interest even to those not considering
Len's IMGate solution.... If you feel I'm wasting your bandwidth, I'm
sorry.
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