[Gllug] Network configuration

[Tethys]

Jonathan Dye writes:

>I want the machines to be public accessible and then use the firewall to
>choose what actually gets in.  For example I want to be able to ssh into any
>of the internal machines.

Use port forwarding on the firewall.

>Therefore I though my options were to either give them all real IP
>addresses or to re-write the public addresses to private addresses
>with a one to one mapping at the firewall. I thought the former would
>be simpler.

I guess the level of difficulty depends on the individual in question,
but I'd have gone for NATing with port forwarding (in fact, I *did*
go for that option :-) My home setup looks pretty my exactly like yours,
except that I have a few more machines behind the firewall...

Tet

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