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On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Ron Watkins wrote:
> As long as we're on this subject, I have a related question. Is it
> possible to do NAT from a *pool* of external addresses? I have five
> external IPs, and I'd like to use my masqing firewall to allow
> multiple people behind the firewall to connect to games that aren't
> necessarily all that NAT-friendly. (many games require specific
> ports to be free.) If the external masqing drew from a pool of
> available addresses, that would be just about perfect. I don't need
> 1-1 mappings (though that would be nice as an option), but having it
> use as many IPs as possible would tend to make things work better
> for NAT... I think.
You should be able to do this if you get the source-routing hack
(sorry, no pointers - try the Shaper HOWTO) and preassign traffic from
certain masqueraded hosts to go out specific interfaces. Normal masq
would work, the difficult part is telling the kernel which interface
to use to route particular traffic.
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