I do suggest not mixing live net ips and public addresses on the same
interface.

I have eth0 live telstra allocated ip's

and

eth1 with the 192.168.x.x addresses

Makes management easy :) and troubleshooting in this case

-----Original Message-----
From: Barrie Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Peter Vogel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: SLUG user group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, 27 January 2000 6:55
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Still trying to solve my virtual hosts problem


>Hi Peter,
>
>Let's see if we can fix this:
>
>> I am trying to hget virtual hosts running on my Linux box. I have
>> managed to get it all working from my LAN, however  the
>> virtual hosts are not accessible from the outside world.
>>
>> My bigpond account routing page tells me that my routing is
>> 203.41.215.160/27
>>
>> Which tallies with the fact that I can be reached at
>> 203.41.215.171 which is my ppp0 interface
>
>This is wrong.  Telstra thinks that the address of your ppp0 interface is
>139.130.15.162, check your /etc/ppp/options file, you should see a line
like
>this:
>
>139.130.15.62:139.130.45.65
>
>I'm going to guess that at the moment, that line in your file is set to:
>
>203.41.215.171:139.130.45.65
>
>This is not a show stopper, you site obviously works but ip aliasing only
>works on shared media interfaces, in your case this would be eth0. i.e. You
>can't assign your LAN addresses to your ppp0 interface and then assign
other
>addresses from the same range to your ethernet interface. (well, you can,
>but not in this context)
>
>You should ifconfig to set up the following:
>
>eth0   -  192.168.0.1/24   <----Your Private LAN address
>
>Now, your first alias to your ethernet card..
>
>eth0:1   -   203.41.215.171/27    <---Your main public www address
>
>This is where you were having probs, you were assigning 203.41.215.171 to
>ppp0 (we've fixed that now)
>
>Note: I assume you are running a Kernel 2.2 or above. If not you will have
>to add entrys to your routing table for this alias.
>
>(route add -net 203.41.215.160 netmask 255.255.255.240 dev eth0:1)
>
>Now, things should start to work.
>
>Start setting up your new aliases:
>
>ifconfig eth0:2 203.41.215.161 netmask 255.255.255.240
>
>ifconfig  eth0:3 203.41.215.162 netmask 255.255.255.240
>..
>..
>etc
>..
>
>Make sure IP forwarding is turned on. This is not a security risk for LAN
>connected computer equip with 192.168.0.xx addresses.
>
>You should enable all other usual security mechanisms.
>
>
>Let me know how you go,
>
>Cheers,
>
>Barrie
>
>
>
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