Michael W. Ryan on Tue, 20 Jun 2000 09:47:11 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: [PLUG] Re: Dual-homed System


On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Michael C. Toren wrote:

> I'm a little confused about your network layout, though.  You have:
> 
>     router <-> 192.168.1.0/25 <-> linux <-> 192.168.1.128/25 <-> end user
> 
> Is that correct?  If so, give the router an IP address in 192.168.1.0/25
> for the ethernet link it's going to share with the linux box, have the
> linux box default route to the router's IP on that segment, and on the
> router, staticly route 192.168.1.128/25 to the linux box's IP in
> 192.168.1.0/25.  That takes care of the "router being able to figure it
> out" bit.
> 
> What I don't quite understand, though, is how you are going to translate
> the RFC1918 space into space allocated to you by your upstream?  Is the
> router doing NAT for 192.168.1/24?  Does the linux box have another IP
> address on the 192.168.1.0/25 ethernet segment which it will be
> masquerading the 192.168.1.128/25 addresses behind?

As I mentioned early in my explanations, I've replaced our real network
address with "192.168.1".  We have a regular class C network.  I'm just
not giving the address, given that we don't currently have a firewall in
place. :)

Michael W. Ryan, MCP, MCT     | OTAKON 2000
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