Redirect from internet to a LAN computer

Redirect from internet to a LAN computer

[Hernan Dario Arredondo]

Hi every one... this is my question...
I had a Web Server running in a Solaris Sparc for test in my enterprise 
LAN with private IP (192.168.2.XX) and no connection to Internet, but I 
need to demo my apps to external clients. I don't want to install the 
Web Server in my gateawy Internet server, is any way to redirect a port 
in the gateway to my Web Server...

Regards....


Hernan Dario

Re: Redirect from internet to a LAN computer

[David Cannings]

On Tuesday 04 May 2004 23:24, Hernan Dario Arredondo wrote:
> Hi every one... this is my question...
> I had a Web Server running in a Solaris Sparc for test in my enterprise
> LAN with private IP (192.168.2.XX) and no connection to Internet, but I
> need to demo my apps to external clients. I don't want to install the
> Web Server in my gateawy Internet server, is any way to redirect a port
> in the gateway to my Web Server...

So long as the private IP is routable from your netfilter machine, DNAT 
should do the trick.  See the "NAT HOWTO" on the following page:

http://netfilter.org/documentation/index.html#documentation-howto

David

Re: Redirect from internet to a LAN computer

[Antony Stone]

On Tuesday 04 May 2004 11:24 pm, Hernan Dario Arredondo wrote:

> Hi every one... this is my question...
> I had a Web Server running in a Solaris Sparc for test in my enterprise
> LAN with private IP (192.168.2.XX) and no connection to Internet, but I
> need to demo my apps to external clients.

No connection to the Internet?   Then it is not accessible to external 
clients.   You need a route to the outside world for the outside world to 
reach the machine.

> I don't want to install the Web Server in my gateawy Internet server, is any
> way to redirect a port in the gateway to my Web Server...

If you have a gateway router between the machine and the Internet then a 
simple NAT rule will allow people to see the web server.

Any tutorial linked from http://www.netfilter.org/documentation will tell you 
to set this up.

Antony.

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