[Gloucs] mount

[Richard Mellersh]

On Saturday 24 May 2003 12:46 pm, Guy Edwards wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-05-24 at 11:33, Richard Mellersh wrote:
> [snip]
>
> > 3. The conclusion I came to is that `firewalling' is only that!! 
> > I allows or prevents ip accesses in either direction, it does NOT
> > do any redirection.
>
> No, thats not right. Forwarding is just a (firewall) rule away.
>
> > 4. There must be some other program that takes over this task? 
> > (I hesitate to mention some of the alternative that I have read
> > about - squid amongst them - for fear of pre-empting any answers
> > I may get!
>
> I'm not too hot on this. Squid does web caching.
> You may want to look for example iptables rules on the web for
> machines doing NAT.
>
> > Am I asking too much of linux?
>
> Not at all, you're just a little bit confused with your config.
>
> > Should I have one system for firewalling and NAT and a differnt
> > system (internal) for hosting my experiments?
>
> Thats the way I would do it. Time for some ascii networking...
>
> internet
>
>
> ipcops or smoothwall box (P75 or better will be fine)
>
>   ----------------- (orange - DMZ)
>
>  switch         webserver
>
>
>  lots of internal machines
>
> > One further `desirable' element would be to allow any internal
> > system to retreive e-mail directly via the `new' systems isdn
> > link IF it is evening OR weekend (no extra charges with
> > "Surftime")
>
> I think you want to setup a cron job or write some interesting
> scripts.
>
> A really vague email by
> Guy
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm! - don't know how to reply to that!
RM
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