One. Use NAT and hide the other machines behind the firewall; just forward the appropriate ports to the right machines.
May I suggest IPCop? http://www.ipcop.org Hide the Linux box and the other machines behind one IPCop box; it'll be a bit more secure under most conditions that rolling your own firewall, especially if you want to put services on the box you were going to use for a firewall. > -----Original Message----- > From: Ezra Nugroho [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 5:35 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: How many ip address question > > > Well, you need 1 then. > > But if it's cheap, I would buy some more. > > > Quoting Mark Neidorff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > What an enviable position to be in.... I'm about to switch > ISPs and one of > > my choices is how many static IPs I want. So, of course, > it depends on my > > network. OK, my network physically 1 linux box to which 7 > other computers > > attach. I want the linux box to be the firewall and mail > server for the > > network, so each of the 7 other computers can have an ip in > the 192.168. > > range. I'd also like to be able to run a web server and a > caching dns > > server. Of course, I get 1 static IP for free, and each > additional one > > costs a bit per month. My question is how many IPs would I > need to make > > this all work? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Mark > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
