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Re: Firewall NAT

To: OpenBSD Misc <misc@openbsd.org>
Subject: Re: Firewall NAT
From: Jan Johansson <janj@wenf.org>
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 09:30:35 +0100
In-reply-to: <p04310102b6c1ccfe4097@[166.84.157.175]>; from kit@kithalsted.com on Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 04:35:18PM -0500
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On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 04:35:18PM -0500, Kit Halsted wrote:
>I'm installing a firewall at my main client's site, but one of
>the other consultants is doing most of the work on it. I want to
>NAT it in such a way that each external address corresponds to
>an internal address. He wants to NAT it in such a way that only
>a few specific hosts are mapped like that, & the other 60
>machines are all NATted off of a single IP. I think he's wrong,
>he thinks I'm wrong, can any of you toss us some opinions? Rules
>in IPFilter, of course, are default deny.

If you want to NAT all adress why NAT at all? I would consider
putting up a brdiging firewall, many computers work so much nicer
when they have a real IP. Especially servers.


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