On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 00:12:44 +0100
mathieu perrenoud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Friday 05 December 2003 23:46, Nathaniel McCallum wrote:
> > On Dec 5, 2003, at 5:39 PM, Marius Mauch wrote:
> > > On 12/05/03  Nathaniel McCallum wrote:
> > >> OK, here is the scenario.  Gentoo router has one routable ip and the
> > >> internal network is nat'ed.  The routable ip has a domain that
> > >> resolves to it, lets call it foobar.com.  Internally (non-routable
> > >> ips), there are hosts (FQDN=host1.foobar.com,host2.foobar.com). Is
> > >> there anyway (perhaps iptables, but probably some other software) to
> > >> automatically forward all traffic to the appropriate host from the
> > >> outside?  I know this has to be done at the packet level, but there
> > >> are some hardware solutions for this, so I thought their might be
> > >> something else out there...
> > >
> > > You can redirect traffic based on ports or IPs, but not on hostnames as
> > > that information is not contained in the IP header, only in some higher
> > > level protocols like HTTP.
> >
> > Yes, I'm aware of this.  That is what I am wondering, if there is any
> > program that actually checks the packets and forwards appropriate
> > traffic...
> 
> I think it has to be done on a per-protocol basis. For HTTP I would go for 
> apache on the router and check the proxy and reverse_proxy directives.
> 
> I don't think it's possible to do this at a more general level. And it's only 
> possible to do this for protocols which encapsulate hostnames like http or 
> ftp. You'll never be able to have your router forward "nc spam.foo.bar 1234" 
> to port 1234 of box spam.foo.bar.
> 
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Hi,

I sugest looking in www.shorewall.net for PROXY-ARP feature.
May be that could help.
Bye.
Rumen.




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