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Article #55864Re: Forwarding and Masquerading???
From: Michel Bardiaux
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 00:00
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 00:00
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Matthew Bennetts wrote: > I need to allow connections from the Internet to a particular service on > one of my company's host machines. However, this host must never see, or be > seen, from the Internet! > > I would like to setup a Linux PC to act as a sort of proxy to forward IP > packets destined for its own IP address on a certain port on a machine on > another network without exposing this other network and its hosts to the > Internet. How do I go about doing this? Why not just set up the TIS plug-gw? This does not work at IP level, but establishes a TCP connection between the firewall and the internal network, copying bytes from and to the external connection. -- Michel Bardiaux UsrConsult S.P.R.L. Rue Margot, 37 B-1457 Nil St Vincent Tel : +32 10 65.44.15 Fax : +32 10 65.44.10
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f922c,94dfcca1d4975112 X-Google-Attributes: gidf922c,public X-Google-Thread: 10669a,94dfcca1d4975112 X-Google-Attributes: gid10669a,public X-Google-Thread: 102983,94dfcca1d4975112 X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: Michel Bardiaux <mbardiaux@usrconsult.be> Subject: Re: Forwarding and Masquerading??? Date: 1997/04/28 Message-ID: <33645B71.15FB@usrconsult.be> X-Deja-AN: 237870911 References: <01bc5175$122e9f00$7b4303c1@mbennett> To: Matthew Bennetts <bennetts@ozemail.com.au> Organization: EUnet Belgium, Leuven, Belgium Newsgroups: aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.security.firewalls