Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 08:49:00 -0500 (EST) From: Stephen Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> To: Mark Radabaugh - Amplex <mark@amplex.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: forwarding surfers.. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10112210848530.13790-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net> In-Reply-To: <MOEMIEFAGIMHBFOCOJKHKEBOGJAA.mark@amplex.net>
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Ah.. I missed that piece. On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Mark Radabaugh - Amplex wrote: > > if a server has PHP enabled it can just check the addr of the person > > connecting and do an include based on what it sees. Much easier than > > fadigling routers > > > > You assume that you normally are routing all traffic through the Apache > box - we do not normally do that. A unsuspended dialup customer gets a > regular IP address and is directly on the Internet. Suspended customers > get a 192.168.0.0/24 IP address - we want all of that traffic directed > by the router to the Apache machine so that no matter what web site they > request in the browser they are sent to the 'suspended' page. > > If you don't redirect the traffic at the router how are you going to get > the packets from a dialup customer on a terminal server to the Apache > box? > > Once you get the packets to the Apache box you still need to get it to > accept the traffic rather than bouncing it back out to the router - > that's what the IPFW stuff is for. > > There are lot's of ways that Apache can determine the calling IP > address - the problem is getting the packets to Apache in the first > place. > > Mark Radabaugh > Amplex > (419) 833-3635 > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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