Topic: Greg

[Does e-smith have NAT ?]

I was just wondering it E-Smith has NAT support. I jut did a search on teh site can sm up empty.

I have to setup a NAT server. My ISP has assigment me 7 IP's and i've got 5 PC's behind me router, but there no NAT on my router.

[Jochen Hoegerl]

If you setup your SME Server as Router & Gateway, it has NAT.

jochen

[Does e-smith have NAT ?]

what about dynamic NAT as seen in this picture

http://www.howstuffworks.com/nat1.htm


if so can you give me a link to the e-smith dynamic nat setup page, i can't find it any where

[Graham]

Greg,

Not sure if I am right but I think the answer is yes.

I have setup small LANS of 10 PC's and with only 1 Analogue
modem which I setup for email.

I came in to the office the next day and to my amazement
two users where surfing the web. IE had autodetected the proxy
server settings and asked for IP. SME did NAT automagically !!!

I wasnt even aware that SME did NAT let alone do such a good
job of it !!!!


Graham

[Andrei]

uh..greg dig deeper into the e-smith.org website not just the forums. You will be amazed at what youcan find here.

[Andrei]

If you are wondering why i am saying this. it's because you asked about NAT which has it's own section in the SME Server documentation.

[Graham]

Where abouts ?

http://www.e-smith.org/docs/manual/5.1/

[Bill Talcott]

Does e-smith have NAT ? wrote:
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> what about dynamic NAT as seen in this picture
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> http://www.howstuffworks.com/nat1.htm
>
>
> if so can you give me a link to the e-smith dynamic nat setup
> page, i can't find it any where

I don't believe SME has dynamic NAT features built-in. The SME takes 1 public IP address, and assigns private IP addresses to all PCs on the LAN. You could use the 1:1 NAT addon (http://www.tech-geeks.org/article.php?story=20020206234827402) to have the other four public IPs point to 4 of the LAN PCs. Those 4 PCs would be using Static NAT according to that diagram, and the others would be using something like Overloading.

[AusMounty]

If your e-smith box has been setup to be a DHCP server SQUID acts as the router... therefore the E-smith handles all http requests and forwards the information accordingly.

E-smith as we know is based on the Redhat 2.2 kernel and has been very much 'hardened'. providing that you have enough bandwidth it is possible to turn your e-smith box into an effective web server.

but more about that later...