Thanks very much for your help Charles.  It doesn't really make any
difference to me if I use port forwarding or a virtual DMZ... I just want it
to work! :-)  Obviously I'd like the most secure and best performance option
available (in that order).

I haven't been able to find a whole lot of documentation on the
implementation of the NAT 'virtual interface'.  Is this the correct way to
set this up?
############################################################################
###
# NAT 'virtual' interface (optional: required only for static-NAT DMZ
systems)
############################################################################
###
# Configured as an interface to allow flexible handling of bringing the
# routing rules up/down in conjunction with the physical interfaces
# interface spec is an indexed list of IP address pairs and a base priority
# number for ip rule creation
nat0_BASE_PRI=100                       # Unique base value for ip rules
# Indexed list: <public IP> <private DMZ IP>
nat0_PAIR0="206.127.77.50 192.168.10.50"
nat0_PAIR1="206.127.77.51 192.168.10.70"
nat0_PAIR2="206.127.77.52 192.168.10.52"
nat0_PAIR3="206.127.77.53 192.168.10.53"
nat0_PAIR4="206.127.77.54 192.168.10.101"
nat0_PAIR5="206.127.77.55 192.168.10.55"
nat0_PAIR6="206.127.77.56 192.168.10.71"

If I do it this way, do I then set up the DMZ below in the script?  Even
though it's called a virtual interface, I still have to use a real ethernet
adapter, right?

One other thought that I had:  Install another NIC with the secondary IP's,
set my DMZ_SWITCH=YES and configure my internal interfaces to use BOTH
192.168.10.x AND 206.127.77.x  Or should I set the switch to NAT and do port
forwarding?  I've read the "Instructions for configuring network.conf" that
you wrote (thanks for that).  Is there anywhere else I can find additional
documentation on the DMZ stuff?

Thanks,
Ken

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of 
> Charles Steinkuehler
> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 10:46 AM
> To: Ken Marshall
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [leaf-user] Adding Extra Static IP's on External 
> Interface
> 
<snip old message>
> 
> OK, so you want port-forwarding on the router, rather than 
> any sort of 
> DMZ setup.
> 
> You can probably get this to work, but the configuration details may 
> require some experimentation.
> 
> I know Dachstein can run with multiple networks on the same 
> interface, 
> as I have done that several times.  I don't think you 
> actually have two 
> networks on your upstream link, but instead have one network with a 
> block of IP's routed to you.  This has the potential to confuse the 
> equipment upstream if you assign the extra IP's directly to 
> the external 
> interface.
> 
> The "normal" way to do this would be to assign public IP's to the 
> desired desktop systems, but this is not necessarily ideal 
> from either a 
> network topology (I'm assuming you have additional machines 
> you do *NOT* 
> which to connect to, and limited IP space), or a security standpoint.
> 
> You're probably going to have to dig around some with tcpdump to make 
> sure whatever you configure is working properly, but the "cleanest" 
> quick solution I can think of is to create a "virtual" DMZ.  If you 
> assign your extra public IP's to a third interface, the upstream 
> equipment will not be confused, your internal boxes will not 
> have public 
> IP's, and you should be able to setup port-forwarding from the public 
> IP's to your internal systems.
> 
> You could probably also get everything to work with the IP's 
> assigned to 
> the external interace, but you'll likely have to do some sniffing to 
> figure out how to configure everything, and make sure nothing 
> strange is 
> happening behind the scenes (like ICMP redirect messages 
> being sent to 
> the upstream host).
> 
> As previously mentioned, there are some tricks the 2.4 series kernels 
> can play with iptables that are not possible with the 2.2 series.  I 
> think you can probably make this go with 2.2 if you want, but there 
> might be an easier solution with 2.4/iptables (bering).  I don't know 
> enough about the changes for 2.4 to say for sure, however, and it 
> probably depends a lot on exactly how the current traffic is 
> showing up 
> at your router, and why simply adding extra IP addresses didn't work.
> 
> Grab a tcpdump package (typically requires libpcap as well), 
> and take a 
> look at your trafffic...
> 
> -- 
> Charles Steinkuehler
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]



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