Re: Firewall configuration questions.

["R. DuFresne" <dufresne () sysinfo com>]

Yes.

It i not the safest thing, but there are times the needs outweight the
costs.

Thanks,

Ron DuFresne

On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, John Morey wrote:

> 1) Is  possible, using Linux, to setup a firewall such that it has public IP addresses on both
> sides.  I thought I read something about this some time back but I can not find it now.  If I 
> remember correctly the trick had to do with putting both network interfaces on the same network
> but giving the external interface a network mask of 255.255.255.252 and the internal interface
> a network mask of 255.255.255.0.
>
> 2) If the above is possible, is it advisable?  What are the up and downs as apposed to doing it
> the "normal" way where the internal machines have private IP addresses?
>
> Thanks for any help or info,
>
> John Morey
> jmorey () mmintl com

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