Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Oct 1998 23:36:07 -0700 (PDT) | From | Gerhard Mack <> | Subject | Re: Dynamic IP hack (PR#294) |
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Ummm what happens when 20 or 30 customers of IP MASQed isp descide us use say ... efnet ?
Gerhard
On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Riley Williams wrote:
> Hi Meelis. > > >> Would your customers be unhappy if you installed a firewall? If > >> not, then it's very simple to get hold of MILLIONS of addresses > >> for static IP purposes, as has been stated at least twice > >> before... > > > IP masq != firewall in a strict sense. > > True, but as the same software's used to control both under Linux 2.0 > kernels, there's not a great deal to differentiate them from a > practical point of view... > > > With NAT, your clients can not use many protocols that they could > > use otherwise. Still, for most clients it's ok. ICQ w/incoming > > calls is the only one I've had problems with in such setup ;-) > > There's one other I've come across, namely net2phone. However, whilst > they're not directly supporting masquerading, they have programmed a > work-around to deal with it - net2phone can be set up to use specific > port numbers, rather than the standard "random free port" system now, > since I've notified them of the problem... > > Incidentally, I met it when setting up Linux as an IP Masq firewall to > a network of Win95 and Win98 systems...net2phone is not available in > Linux versions, and they don't currently plan to support Linux either, > unfortunately... > > Best wishes from Riley. > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
-- Gerhard Mack
gmack@imag.net InnerFIRE@starchat.net
As a computer I find your faith in technology amusing.
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