Re: Routing through PtP and iptables

["antonio.dibacco" <antonio.dibacco@aruba.it>]

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The two boxes will never be placed on the same LAN.

Thank you for your attention 

Rob Sterenborg Scrive: 

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> 
>> Hi all, 
>> 
>> I have two identical linux boxes (A e B), each one with two
>> interfaces: an ethernet (eth0 with ip 192.168.1.50) and an hdlc
>> (hdlc0). The two boxes are only connected via a link through their
>> hdlc interfaces. Because they have to be  exactly the same, if I have
>> to assign an ip address to hdlc0 of A then the hdlc0 of B should have
>> the same ip address. Each one should have a default route that cannot
>> coincide with the hdlc interface. Every linux box has a web server.
>> When I connect with my notebook to box A I want to reach the web
>> server on A typing in my browser http://192.168.1.50 and I want to
>> reach web server on B typing http://192.168.1.50:8080 . 
>> Some one knows how could it be possible? 
>> 
>> Thank you for your help,
>> Antonio.
> 
> If Server A has IP 192.168.1.50, you *cannot* have a server B also on
> 192.168.1.50 in the samen LAN. You would have 1 IP address for multiple
> servers and that just isn't going to work. 
> 
> What you *can* do is :
> Server A = 192.168.1.50
> Server B = 192.168.1.51
> Forward requests to 192.168.1.50:8080 to 192.168.1.51(:8080 or whatever
> you like) 
> 
> 
> Gr,
> Rob 
> 
>