At 08:06 AM 5/26/00 -0700, you wrote:
>if this is not what you are looking for, then maybe if you let us know what
>exactly you want to do/accomplish, and what resources you have (machines,
>IPs, etc) are available, then maybe, someone could think of a solution.
Here is my current situation.
I have two web servers. For internal reasons one is running
NT/ColdFusion/website and one is running apache/linux/php. The one running
apache is running mod_ssl and has a verisign key. Both of these servers
have their own IP addresses and both point to different name server
entries. During the normal operations they may send a client back and forth
and may need to connect not only to each other but to other machines in the
network (database access etc). Eventually I might get rid of the NT machine
but I have to rewrite all the Cold Fusion pages in PHP first so that may
take a while. In the mean time I envisioned the following scenario. Oh yea
one fo these servers also acts as an FTP/SMTP/POP server and a file server
too!.
I make all the IPs private except the name server (I leave that outside the
firewall). I take the two IP addresses the web servers and assign them to
the external interface of the gateway. then I forward the ports I need to
the appropriate servers on the private net. Like this.
gateway external interface.
IP1 PORT:80 Forwards to Machine1 PORT:80
IP2 PORT:80 Forwards to Machine2 PORT:80
IP2 PORT:443 (ssl) Forwards to Machine2 PORT:443
etc.. with all the other services.
This way only the public services are open to the outside world and private
services (like file sharing) are hidden from the outside world.
I hope I am being clear enough here I realize this is an unusual setup. If
anybody has another possible solution I am all ears.
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Tim Uckun
Mobile Intelligence Unit.
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"There are some who call me TIM?"
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