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From: Grant Taylor <gtaylor@riverviewtech.net>
To: Mail List - Netfilter <netfilter@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Multihomed Problem
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:55:30 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <475F1562.7060207@riverviewtech.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1197412206.19486.115.camel@grateful.d.umn.edu>

On 12/11/07 16:30, Matt Zagrabelny wrote:
> You wouldn't need to set up NAT if both IPs on the gnu/linux box are 
> the gateways for the respective networks. Just enable forwarding:

Agreed.  I answered the question as if the multihomed system was not the 
router.

If the multihomed system is the router or if the router knows about all 
subnets, direct routing (not NATing) would probably be the better approach.

> No NAT required, the linux box is aware of the subnets and will pass 
> traffic happily between them.

So long as firewalling is not in the say, yes.




Grant. . . .

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-11 22:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-11 21:24 Multihomed Problem Jack Lauman
2007-12-11 22:04 ` Grant Taylor
2007-12-11 22:30   ` Matt Zagrabelny
2007-12-11 22:55     ` Grant Taylor [this message]
2007-12-12 19:09       ` Jack Lauman
2007-12-12 19:35         ` Matt Zagrabelny
2007-12-13  0:21         ` Grant Taylor

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