On 19 Mar 2003, Joon Guillen wrote:

> Yup, that's what I thought would be the only feasible solution.  Good
> thing additional IP addresses aren't that costly.
>
> One more question: Should every additional external/public IP address
> map to different internal IPs, or could they all point to only one
> internal IP?

It should be 1 to 1 mapping. 1 external ip address
mapped to 1 internal ip address and so on and so forth.

> The vhost directives in the httpd.conf file makes use of the internal
> IPs (eg <VirtualHost 192.168.0.1>), not external ones, so I guess it
> should be the former.  And if I only have one ethernet interface, that
> means I should resort to using subinterfaces, right?

Yes, IP alias works fine with Linux. You simply
have to convert your hosting from name virtual
hosting to ip virtual hosting on the backend.

IP alias creation in newer linux kernel has no
limits, so create as you like.

regards,
---
Andre M. Varon, SCSA
http://andre.lasaltech.com

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