>Duncan Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm currently trying to decipher the IPChains howot, and other
>assorted documentation, and am having a few difficulties. The major
>one is that my setup is nothing like any of the examples. I have a
>single ethernet card connected to the local net, which is in turn
>masq'd to the real world. There is also a passage in the firewall of
>the network that gives my machine a direct route to the internet with
>my own external address.
>
>I'm trying to work out the rules that will allow outside connections
>to only connect to ports 22 and 80, while still allowing the internal
>network full access. Unfortunately, the internal network is NOT one
>of the network numbers assigned for LANs.
>
>Has anyone got a basic rule or three that I can springboard off of?
>Or are more details needed?
I think more details would be helpful:
Is your firewall doing static NAT for your Linux box? If so, is the
externally visible IP address different than the one your Linux box is
assigned?
Is your internal network using one of the range of addresses assigned for
private networks or live IP addresses?
-Eric
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