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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!ix.netcom.com!mvh From: mvh@netcom.com (Michael Harding) Subject: Re: Help! Firewall routing! Message-ID: <mvhE5389C.85z@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom On-Line Services X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] References: <mvhE532G0.K6J@netcom.com> Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 16:53:35 GMT Lines: 30 Sender: mvh@netcom18.netcom.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35322 Should I add a point-to-point link for the outgoing connection? What's the syntax for this? Michael Harding (mvh@netcom.com) wrote: : I'm having the following problem: : I'm trying to go from : ext. net ---> router <--- internal net : to : ext. net ---> router <--- freebsd machine ---> internal net : where I of course have two ethernet cards on the freebsd machine. : The router currently has a *.1 address, the freebsd machine currently : has a *.15 address, and the interl net has addresses all over the : place. I would like to keep the external address of the freebsd *.15 : because that's where mail is set up to go. I can use anything for the : internal address. Also, the router is administered by our ISP and I : would just as soon leave it alone. : So, is it possible to do the above without changing any addresses? : Would I have to add static routes? I'm not sure I can do it, but it : would be a pain to reconfig half of our network to support this... : Mike Harding