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Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 19:25:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: Michal Guerquin <mikeg@u.washington.edu>
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Subject: Host Based Routing
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On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 07:25:43PM -0700, Michal Guerquin wrote:
> The router/firewall can only know that a request was made to its
> external IP, not a particular hostname.. is this reasoning correct?

I believe so.

> Is there an alternative to mapping unique ports on the router/firewall to
> specific ports on the internal machines?

Alias two IPs to the firewall, assign each domain name its own IP,
and then set up the forwarding accordingly?   I've certainly never done
it but it seems at least plausible.

-- 
      Evan Martin
martine@cs.washington.edu
  http://neugierig.org
On Sun, 14 Apr 2002 23:47:12 -0700 (PDT)
"'irrelevant' M. Rogers" <athene@u.washington.edu> issued forth:

> Is it even possible to assign two IPs to one interface on the firewall?

eth0:1
eth0:2

etc, etc, etc...

-- 
Jesse Keating
j2solutions.net
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