Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 22:53:51 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Hardie <chris@summersault.com> To: Tony Landells <ahl@austclear.com.au> Cc: Nick Rogness <nick@rogness.net>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Confusion about router/firewall traffic from router itself Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0104262250070.620-100000@nollie.summersault.com> In-Reply-To: <200104270346.NAA26236@tungsten.austclear.com.au>
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From the sound of things, I'm assuming that our setup is non-standard. I'm interested to know what a "typical" setup might be that would eliminate the need for my earlier questions. It seems that most folks would have similar starting points: an upstream ISP with a router that you plug into, a firewall that needs to be the entry point for all network traffic, and a need to access network services from inside the network. What would one do rather than plug the link into the router/firewall? We might be slightly exceptional in that we do web hosting and co-location, and therefore have some "non-standard" needs in terms of direct addressing for internal hosts. In any case, thanks for the help and pointers. Chris On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Tony Landells wrote: > nick@rogness.net said: > > Your ISP connects to you with a non-routeable IPs????? > > Isn't it a great idea? > > Most point-to-point (WAN) links are an inconvenience that you wish > could be made invisible but need addresses, so why not use "invisible" > RFC 1918 addresses for them? > > Of course, there's a huge "opportunity" to stuff things up monumentally > by advertising routing for these links (which would attract rubbish > from all over the place), and it's a huge inconvenience for those that > want to do what Chris has done and plug the link straight into his firewall. > > Cheers, > Tony > -- > Tony Landells <ahl@austclear.com.au> > Senior Network Engineer Ph: +61 3 9677 9319 > Australian Clearing Services Pty Ltd Fax: +61 3 9677 9355 > Level 4, Rialto North Tower > 525 Collins Street > Melbourne VIC 3000 > Australia > > -- Chris Hardie ----------------------------- ----- mailto:chris@summersault.com ---------- -------- http://www.summersault.com/chris/ -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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