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From: mvh@netcom.com (Michael Harding)
Subject: Re: Help!  Firewall routing!
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Should I add a point-to-point link for the outgoing connection?
What's the syntax for this?

Michael Harding (mvh@netcom.com) wrote:
: I'm having the following problem:

: I'm trying to go from

: ext. net ---> router <--- internal net

: to

: ext. net ---> router <--- freebsd machine ---> internal net

: where I of course have two ethernet cards on the freebsd machine.

: The router currently has a *.1 address, the freebsd machine currently
: has a *.15 address, and the interl net has addresses all over the
: place.  I would like to keep the external address of the freebsd *.15
: because that's where mail is set up to go.  I can use anything for the
: internal address.  Also, the router is administered by our ISP and I
: would just as soon leave it alone.

: So, is it possible to do the above without changing any addresses?
: Would I have to add static routes?  I'm not sure I can do it, but it
: would be a pain to reconfig half of our network to support this...

: Mike Harding