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Virtual web server
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Al Longyear)
Tue Aug 13 13:27:09 1996
From: longyear@netcom.com (Al Longyear)
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 1996 21:42:04 -0700 (PDT)
I have a small problem.
I have one customer who has a single computer system upon which he
wants to offer virtual web services.
Using dummy device(s) will work for a small number.
However, this customer wants to dedicate the entire class-C network to
this one computer for web services. This is ONE computer and 255
IP addresses -- all on one network -- all on one computer.
Routing is not a problem. We just make the system the gateway to the
class-C network and the frames are delivered to this system as they
would be for any router.
However, does anyone have a way to 'properly' define that all 255
possible IP addresses for a class-C network are local and not to be
forwarded to another network?
I can hack the networking code to do this -- even if I must put
specific recognition of the IP network into the networking
code. However, that is not a good solution. (Other than a definition
of 'good' meaning "it works!")
This is not a problem of the computer being on two networks. This is a
problem of the entire network BEING that computer. If it was just the
one computer on two networks then either a single dummy or aliases
would do.
I need to have the destination IP address intact in order to do the
virtual services in apache.
Has anyone a better idea as to the solution which will work for this
problem? I have tried several ideas. They all did not work -- short
of doing a 255 dummy devices module and giving each one a specific
entry from the IP network.
I have tried to use IP alias devices. They do the same thing with the
same set of limitations.
Many thanks.
--
Al Longyear longyear@netcom.com
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