On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 07:43:42PM -0400, Ramin Alidousti wrote:
>On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 07:07:38PM -0400, George Georgalis wrote:
>
>> A nice benefit will be the ease of running an IDS on the firewall. (not
>> that it wouldn't be easily circumvented ...I using a configurable
>> switch so no help there)
>> 
>> A mention of dropping the route to LAN on internal machines, leaving
>> the gw, and adding a forward chain on the firewall would be nice in
>> http://www.netfilter.org/documentation/HOWTO//NAT-HOWTO-10.html
>
>Most of the time you don't want all your (local) traffic to flow through
>the firewall and back (generating tons of ICMP redirects). Another reason
>for that would be that this solution might only work for the single subnet
>topology and not when you have several internal subnets.
>
>The solution provided by Rusty in that web page is the general, elegant
>solution.
>

I guess I'm trying to get everything... I want the destination to know
the client IP whether it came from the LAN or internet. and I want
clients on the LAN to test the hosts as if they were on the internet
(eg same ports as seen from the internet). Me thinks; since I'm already
using source based dns, I could just reference them by name and forward
the proxy ports to the actual ports on_each_host, then they would work,
and log everything correctly too. :)

// George


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