Hi, I'm going to be switching my home network from ISDN to ADSL in the next few weeks, and I want to set up a LEAF firewall in preparation. I currently have a linux box as my gateway, running iptables. That box has the fixed public IP address that my ISP provided. I also run a few services on that machine, such as qmail, dns, www, sshd.
I'm going to buying an ADSL router, which will have an ethernet port on the back, and I'm thinking of connecting that to my LEAF firewall, which forwards traffic on to my internal network, including the linux box on which I want to continue to run services. My questions are these (and I realise they're not all totally specific to LEAF, but I know you guys know your networking ;-) - Will my adsl router get my public ip address (presumably) - if so, should the router then have an internal address on it's private facing port - if, so, then presumably the LEAF external port is in the same network - in the above setup, can I plug the internal eth from the router into the LEAF NIC, with the right sort of cable - Does my internal LEAF port then use another internal network, which presumably is the same as my internal machines - Do I then need to specifically nat all incoming requests to my particular internal server (www, smtp etc) - If so, does that mean I shouldn't use dhcp on the internal network, so I can hard code the internal IP address of my server And finally, does all this sound like the best way of doing this? My home server is not really used by a large number of people - mainly for home email and me logging in via ssh and imaps. It's pretty secure at the moment with iptables on it, but I'd like to run LEAF, partly for even better security, and partly to get used to LEAF even more. Many thanks, Dave _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
