On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 09:17:20AM -0500, Joe Auerbach wrote: > Here's a question. Since all the machines are actually running locally > on hte ltsp box, do they keep their ip's as far as the firewall is > converned? That is, will it see ip.box.1 as different from ip.box.2, or > will they all be ip.box.server? >
It depends on where the firewall is and how routing the clients boxes requests is being and (finally) how you are managing your IP address space. In most cases (I think) the LTSP clients get IP addresses which are not ever going to be publicly (Internet) visible so all of their IP traffic gets "NAT'ed" to/from the public IP address which is gateway-ed to the internet. If your firewall is doing the "NATting" then yes, the firewall sees the internal IP's. That is the case for many networks that I have done but its not the only way to do it. Many networks separate the NAT and firewall functions to different *boxen for both performance and security reasons. On those networks, the firewall is usually "outside" (on the internet) and the NAT box is usually "inside" (behind the firewall) so that firewall would never see the internal (LTSP client) IP's. *"boxen" derivative of "Vaxen" meaning "possibly more than one". -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. speech recognition software may have been used to create this e-mail "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." - Brandeis To think contrary to one's era is heroism. But to speak against it is madness. -- Eugene Ionesco ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
