[Gllug] Firewalling

Daniel Fairs daniel.fairs at spiderplant.net
Thu Aug 23 13:54:34 UTC 2001


Actually, yes, you're right :). Is there a 'standard' (ie tradtitional)
address that ppl normally use for the gateway - 192.168.0.1 or something?

Cheers,
Dan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gllug-admin at linux.co.uk [mailto:gllug-admin at linux.co.uk]On Behalf
> Of David Damerell
> Sent: 23 August 2001 14:43
> To: gllug at linux.co.uk
> Subject: RE: [Gllug] Firewalling
>
>
> On Thursday, 23 Aug 2001, Daniel Fairs wrote:
> >I wasn't, but I agree I wasn't initially clear: DHCP will be
> handing out the
> >private IP addresses (192.168.x.x). We have our static IPs
> allocated to us
> >by our ISP, which will be 'manually' set.
>
> Please, tell me you're not using all of 192.168/16?
>
> But just because you assign a 192.168. address to (some subset) of the
> interfaces on the gateway machine doesn't mean it has to be done via
> DHCP; in fact, that's a silly idea.
>
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