thanks for the reply everyone... I'm still a bit confused as to how the traffic gets routed back. But anyways, someone else suggested to me to just add a new MX record with higher priority than my current MX record to point to my new IP **BEFORE** I actually switch circuits (IP addys) over. Anyone have experience with this? Is it true that since the higher priority MX record will fail, then it will just try the lower priority record and point correctly until I switch over?

thanks!
rob


From: "Nicolas G" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] possible to NAT 2 public IPs to one private IP?
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 22:59:54 -0700

Very simple to answer this question.

Two routers, one for each External IP. Each router must have its own
(different) internal ip.
You set them up to forward the appropriate ports to the internal IP of
the mail server.

2 Routers, A and B
Mail Server, MS

Connection -> A -> MS    ->  A -> Internet
Connection -> B -> MS    ->  B -> Internet

If the traffic comes in thru router A (old ip) then the traffic gets
sent to the imail server, imail then sends it back to the router and the
router sends it to the client.
Same goes for B.

No need to worry about routing the traffic back or anything.


-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rod Dorman Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 7:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] possible to NAT 2 public IPs to one private IP?


On Wednesday, September 3, 2003, 21:50:34, Rob A wrote: > This isn't exactly a specific IMail question. I'm switching ISPs and > since my Public IP address will change, I was wondering if there's a > way to minimize downtime due to DNS changes by having my old and new > Public IP NAT to a single private IP where IMail runs. I have an > internal router that can route between the two circuits:

> IMail (Priv. IP Z.Z.Z.Z) ---
>     |
> Internal Router----New Router that does NAT----> New Public IP X.X.X.X
>     |
>     |--------------Old Router that does NAT----> Old Public IP Y.Y.Y.Y

> 1) Is it possible to have two public IPs NAT to a single private IP?

Yes.

> 2) How would packets get routed as they go out?

Depends on how you configure the routing tables on the Internal Router.

> I.E. should I just route everything to the New Router for outgoing
> packets?

It will be the simplest thing to do (I'm assuming you're not running BGP
or some other routing protocol).  I would however route packets destined
for your old ISPs network out the old router.

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