On Friday 21 June 2002 5:17 am, Sathi wrote:

> > > For 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'm not quite sure if you're saying here that you will be changing the 
10.10.10.0/24 network range for some other address range at soem stage - in 
which case I recommend that you do it now and save yourself a lot of 
networking / routing problems.

If that's not what you're saying, then what is the relevance of the 
172.16.0.0/16 address ?   If this is another internal LAN range then you 
should use that in order to avoid the nasty network / routing problems.

Basically I am saying that you should have two different network ranges on 
the two sides of the firewall.   Is there any good reason you cannot do this ?

> I need to assign public ip address to some machine behind the firewall.

That is fine - just a few simple DNAT rules...

> > 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 expecting 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

In that case you cannot use your firewall as a router - it will have to be 
either a bridge (which I cannot really help you with - I know it can be done 
but I have no experience of it myself), or you will have to proxy arp for all 
the 10...... addresses and put a different network range on the other side of 
the firewall (as recommended above).

 

Antony.

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