alkeli Posted February 23, 2006 Report Share Posted February 23, 2006 Ok so here's my proposed setup. [internet]--->[cable modem]--->[firewall/ICS machine]--->[hub]====>[4 other PC's] Firewall/ics machine is running mandriva 2006 and has 2 NIC's. Now I understand the whole setup, but since my PC's are getting their IP's assigned by the ICS machine, does this interfere with any internet software such as bittorrent, limewire, amsn, etc etc? Because as far as I can tell, the outside world will only be able to see one PC(my ICS machine). And how can I directly connect to one of my PC for using a remote desktop app for example from the internet, it doesn't have an IP on the internet side does it? Say for example I'm at work and I want to connect to one of my PC's either with ssh or whatever and I need it's IP, how would I connect to it if it's IP is say 192.10.20.30(my static assigned IP on my internal LAN). I hope you understand my question, if you don't I can clairify some more. Thanks in Advance! Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jboy Posted February 23, 2006 Report Share Posted February 23, 2006 Very clear writeup! Good job. ;) If that machine connected to the cable modem is set up as a router with NAT (network address translation), then I think you're ok. Regarding your second question, you would need to do port forwarding. For example, I have a Linksys router and the configuration screens allow me to forward incoming traffic for specified ports to a specified machine on my network. So yes, you have only one IP address visible to the outside world, but your router setup can forward any traffic to a specified machine on your network. Of course, there are lots of security issues regarding all this, so you will need to bone up on that as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alkeli Posted February 23, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2006 (edited) Ok great. So what's the package called for using NAT? Now, for the port forwarding, let me know if I have this right (just using random IP's and ports here). My ICS machine's IP is 150.10.20.30 and "PC1" on my LAN is 192.4.5.306. So, if I want to connect to port 25 on PC1, then I can setup something so that if I connect to say 150.10.20.30:1025(My ICS machine) it will forward it to go to my PC1's IP @ 192.4.5.6:25? So this setup would mean that if the ICS machine gets a connection to it's port 1025 it will forward it to 192.4.5.6(PC1) on port 25(or whatever I choose)? And I can make as many of these rules as I want? Thanks a million. Al Edited February 23, 2006 by alkeli Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jboy Posted February 23, 2006 Report Share Posted February 23, 2006 Here's a reference to setting this up using Mandriva's standard Shorewall firewall product. http://www.shorewall.net/two-interface.htm Be sure to check out additional info via the links at the Shorewall home site: http://www.shorewall.net/ Note that there are references for both version 2 and version 3 of Shorewall. Yes, I think you understand the ideas well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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