Re: A way of setting up a computer for routing *just* port 113?
Would it be possible to setup, say, my desktop machine, or any other Debian machine, to be a router for *just* port 113? So I could forward port 113 on the WAN to that machine, and then that machine could automatically share port 113 with any machine on the home LAN? This would include the Windows boxes that form the unfortunate majority on the LAN. If so, what would be the requirements? Okay, so your router-box-thing *always* forwards 113 to the Debian box, and the Debian box is then intelligent enough to know to which of your other home machines to send the request? Which depends on it having seen the outgoing request that triggered the remote end's IDENT request. I know that masquerading/NAT with 'ipchains' supports *some* sort of 'related' traffic (like control and data ports on FTP connections), but I am pretty sure that it would not spot that the incoming IDENT request is related to the previous outgoing IRC client connection request. But ... there is a program 'mident' for providing IDENT support on networks with masquerading, for doing something like this. Check http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=midentsearchon=namessubword=1version=allrelease=all Perhaps that will help you. Alexis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A way of setting up a computer for routing *just* port 113?
My router, which is not a computer, but rather an unbranded little plastic box, will only allow ports to be forwarded to one IP on the LAN's Class C subnet. This causes a problem when trying to use ident, which uses port 113, as it means that only one computer in the house may use ident without resetting the router. Would it be possible to setup, say, my desktop machine, or any other Debian machine, to be a router for *just* port 113? So I could forward port 113 on the WAN to that machine, and then that machine could automatically share port 113 with any machine on the home LAN? This would include the Windows boxes that form the unfortunate majority on the LAN. If so, what would be the requirements? Please understand I'm no expert with networking *or* Debian, but I know enough to setup small LANs and am generally capable of following instructions :) Many thanks in advance :D Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A way of setting up a computer for routing *just* port 113?
It sounds like you just need to install one of the fake identd packages, like nullidentd, and make your router forward port 113 requests to that. nullidentd will always answer foobar to any request. I run it on my router (a Debian machine) to fool silly IRC servers which require an ident service before you can connect. There isn't any way to share the port like you suggest. Perhaps if you explain why you need ident to work (it is almost never needed at all), someone can help more. Regards, Jeff On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 04:06:24AM +0100, Joseph Jones wrote: My router, which is not a computer, but rather an unbranded little plastic box, will only allow ports to be forwarded to one IP on the LAN's Class C subnet. This causes a problem when trying to use ident, which uses port 113, as it means that only one computer in the house may use ident without resetting the router. Would it be possible to setup, say, my desktop machine, or any other Debian machine, to be a router for *just* port 113? So I could forward port 113 on the WAN to that machine, and then that machine could automatically share port 113 with any machine on the home LAN? This would include the Windows boxes that form the unfortunate majority on the LAN. If so, what would be the requirements? Please understand I'm no expert with networking *or* Debian, but I know enough to setup small LANs and am generally capable of following instructions :) Many thanks in advance :D Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
