On Monday 20 May 2002 10:41 pm, Travis Crook wrote: > The internal web server that I am running has a connection to > the internet through the firewall plus it has an external connection of > its own (2 nics, one connected to the LAN the other connected to the > internet - separate from the firewall connection).
Let me make sure I understand this setup correctly: You have a Firewall connected to the Internet and to your internal LAN, and you have a web server also connected to the Internet and to your internal LAN, so the two machines, in effect, are in parallel. Why ??? > I can't seem to get > connections established to the internal address on the Web server when I > make a request to it through the firewall. I can connect to it when I > type the ip address in from the internal network. I'm not surprised. The web server will have a routing table on it which tells it to use its own direct connection to the Internet for replying to the outside world, therefore any request which it received from an external address will be replied to diectly, not through the Firewall. If you've got NAT running on the Firewall, this means the client will get a response from a machine it didn't expect; if you haven't then you're probably just upsetting some upstream router which is only seeing half the packets. I hope I've got this picture of your network correct. Please tell us either why you have done it like this, or what I've got wrong. Antony.
