> On Thursday 20 June 2002 2:14 pm, Sathi wrote: > > > Hello All, > > > > I have a Redhat linux box with two NIC which i am going to use as firewall > > machine. > > > > Foe some reason i want to assign a ip address for these 2 NIC in same > > network say > > > > eth0: 10.10.10.1/24----------> to router > > eth1: 10.10.10.2/24<---------- from client > > Why do you want to do this ?
I will be replacing this 10.10.10.0/24 address to public ip eth1 has aliase of 172.16.0.0/16 LAN address.(This will be Masquerade to public ip of eth0 which is working fine now) I need to assign public ip address to some machine behind the firewall. > > What do you expect the routing table to look like on the machine (eg where > should it send a packet for 10.10.10.10 - out of eth0 or eth1 ?) > It should go through eth0 > What is your router expecting to find connected to it ? Does it expect to > see all 10.10.10.0/24 hosts connected on a local LAN (in which case it's > epxecting to see arp responses for those addresses), or is it expecting to > see them on the other side of a router (such as your firewall box) ? > It is expected to see all 10.10.10.0/24 address > Do you know what a network bridge is ? Have you considered whether this is > what you need ? > > The setup you have proposed is not a good network configuration to work with, > and is not recommended unless you (a) really know what you're doing, and (b) > don't mind debugging and troubleshooting being quite difficult. > > > > Antony. Thanks Sathi
