Thank you Charles for your  concise clarification.
This is very helpful to me as I do plan to run IPSec on the firewall.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Steinkuehler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "leaf-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 9:10 AM
Subject: [Leaf-user] Re: [Leaf-devel] Dachstein-CD General use documentation


> A bit of clarification for the archives...
>
> > Some things which will seem obvious to other folks
> > that were not obvious to me, which I used from the
> > casano.com EigerStein v1.1 Proxy-Arp DMZ example:
> >
> > 1)  External interface and DMZ interface IP addresses
> > need to be the same address for Proxy-Arp DMZ.
>
> You MAY assign the DMZ and external interface the same IP, but this is not
a
> requirement.  For folks with one of the /29 static xDSL networks (5 usable
> IP's), this can be important, saving an extra IP for a server system.
>
> *WARNING*  Assigning two interfaces the same IP confuses the current
> FreeS/WAN IPSec code, which was initially developed when such things were
> not possible.  If you're planning on running IPSec on your firewall, and
> don't want to patch the code to ignore one of your two identical
interfaces,
> you need to give the external and DMZ interface unique IP's.
>
> > 2)  eth0_ROUTES="default.gw.ip" entry needed??? (I put
> > this in since casano did.)
>
> This is mandatory.  The firewall has no idea which IP's are connected to
the
> two identically numbered networks (your external network and the DMZ
> network).  You use the routing tables to specify which interface to use to
> reach various systems.  Typically, the 'default' will be to have all IP's
on
> the DMZ, with just your gateway IP on the external net.  If you have some
> other systems connected directly to the external network for some reason,
> you'll need to add their IP's to eth0_ROUTES as well (assuming eth0 is
your
> external interface).
>
> > 3)  xxxx_PROXY_ARP=YES in both ext. and DMZ
> > interfaces.
>
> Not much proxy-arping happens without this ;-)
>
> Charles Steinkuehler
> http://lrp.steinkuehler.net
> http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror)
>
>
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