[Gllug] Firewalling

Daniel Fairs daniel.fairs at spiderplant.net
Thu Aug 23 13:30:37 UTC 2001


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.

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 14:18
> To: gllug at linux.co.uk
> Subject: RE: [Gllug] Firewalling
>
>
> On Thursday, 23 Aug 2001, Daniel Fairs wrote:
> >Sure, the publicly accessible servers need 'real' IP addresses.
> However, is
> >there any reason to give the NIC for the DMZ a public IP, as it
> will have a
> >public NIC anyway? So, to conclude, the 'internal' NIC and the DMZ NIC
> >should be DHCP'd, the external NIC should have a real IP, and
> the machines
> >in the DMZ should (of course) have a real IP. Correct?
>
> You seem to be confusing 'being DHCPed' with 'having an RFC1918
> IP address'.
>
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