On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 09:48, Nick Rout wrote: > > Yes both are lans. However Network 2 will be a Class C subnet and > > Network 1 uses full internet rout-able (no pun intended) ips. > > > > Machines on Network 2 will not be able to access stuff on Network 1 > > without NAT will they? > > > > Mark > > Ahhh I see now whats happenning. Yes I guess thats right, as you can't > route the private ip's over public address space. > > One option where you want to run the same service on multiple internal > hosts is to map different ports to it. Like if you were running two web > servers on the private lan make port forwarding entries : > > port 80 external ---> port 80 on 192.168.1.1 > > port 81 external ---> port 80 on192.168.1.2 > > Then if you want to access the webserver on 192.168.1.2 from the public > network you point your browser to port 81 on the nat box, which forwards > the request to port 80 on 192.168.1.2. > > I suppose you could do something similar for X.
This was my original plan, I was hoping for someone to suggest something brilliant, but alas ..... Only one box on Network 2 can receive X11 graphics apps (without the use of ssh tunneling) Mark
