[3704] in linux-net channel archive
Re: dual-segments; gateway
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Dyas)
Mon Jul 15 17:21:04 1996
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 96 16:22:32 EDT
From: Tom Dyas <tdyas@eden.rutgers.edu>
To: Joselito J Chua <jjchua@cs.monash.edu.au>
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of Sun, 14 Jul 1996 13:29:22 +1000 (EST)
> (5) In the future, there'll be another server P which
> will be the LAN's gateway to the world. Is it
> possible to set-up P such that the workstations,
> even with their `illegal' IP addrs as given below,
> may be able to access the web? To push the question
> further a bit, is it possible to make a `node'
> out of a single host address? How?
First off, do not use 127.x.x.x for any of the IP addresses since all
of 127.x.x.x is reserved for the loopback interface. You can use the
private networking address 10.x.x.x which is never routed out of a
subnetwork.
If you would like to learn how hosts without "real" IP addresses can
get outside the subnet, read the IP-Masquerade mini-HOWTO available at
sunsite.unc.edu:pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/IP-Masquerade.
Tom
