On 09/07/13 21:32, Simon Slaytor wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I've been trying to wrap my head around a problem for a little while and
> I'm getting nowhere fast so thought I'd ask the experts:
> 
> Due to a company take over I have two networks, NetA and NetB, that I
> need to link together for bi directional data sharing etc. Unfortunately
> both networks use the same IP addressing scheme i.e. 172.16.10.0/24 and
> neither can changed within the timespan available to me.
> 
> So I need to setup a PF box which links to both networks and translates
> between the two. Conceptually I want to have it that from NetA's
> perspective NetB is 172.16.20.0/24 and from NetB's perspective NetA is
> 172.16.30.0/24
> 
> NetA ----> NetB-NAT (172.16.20.0/24) -----> NIC1 (172.16.10.254/24) PF
> Firewall/Route NIC2 (172.16.10.254/24) <---- NetA-NAT (172.16.30.0)
> <----- NetB
> 
> I've read about bitmask on NAT/BITNAT etc and all this looks good the
> problem however is that this is done on the outgoing interface however
> given that both the outbound and inbound interfaces share an ip/subnet
> the packets never get to the outbound interface to be translated.
> 
> I'm sure there's something completely obvious I'm missing, any help
> would be much appreciated.
> 
> Simon
> 

So you have 172.16.10.254 on two interfaces on the same box? I don't
think that will end well. I would go with two firewalls, one nats NetA,
the other nats NetB and put a link net in between.

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