On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: <snip> > > Second question: How hard is it to configure lrp for this type of setup? > > Pretty complicated, although someone was saying one of the add-on firewall > packages supports multiple external interfaces. You'll probably have to > become quite familiar with the kernel's advanced routing features, and > ipchains/iptables rules, regardless. >
Actually, I'm pretty certain that it is impossible. The problem is that ip masquerading will only masquerade one interface. I think you need multiple routers unless you keep distinct non-NAT'd IP spaces and use a routing daemon. > > What distributions do you all recommend > > If I'm remembering correctly, and one of the add-on firewall scripts will > support multiple external interfaces (in a way that matches what you want to > do with load-balancing), use whatever disto that script recommends. If > you're going to be coding your own firewall/routing rules, it probably > doesn't matter which disto you pick, although Oxygen and LRP 2.9.8 try to do > less setup for you, so they may be easier to modify than Dachstein, which > tries to do everything for you. > For this task I'd recommend a full distribution of BSD. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
