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Title: Oh my god a DMZ.
Post by: Dean Sheppard on April 27, 2001, 07:15:35 AM

Hello,

I've installed and been using e-smith 4.1 and found it to be fantastic..
How ever, I have just found that I am going to require a DMZ, has anyone inplemented this or is it possible within the e-smith environment..

Please help..

Cheers,
Dean..

Title: Re: Oh my god a DMZ.
Post by: Jason Ebacher on April 27, 2001, 08:12:32 AM

OK I have a solution but it wil require some new(old useless)hardware...I have no I dea if e-smith will do this but I run two servers on a kind of DMZ what I did was built a FREESCO router (it is as easy as e-smith) http://www.freesco.org

Here is what i did internet connection comming in. goes to the freesco box, it passes packets to my two web servers one a Cobalt cube (or your e-smith) and one NT IIS box.. I run the one on port 80 and the other on port 8080. this was my solution to get two public servers on one ip and mac address works flawlessly.. Then I hang my internal network behind the cobalt. the nicest thing about it is that the freesco can be a old 486 with out a monitor or anything, just a 486 with a floppy and two nic's.

I run the two servers and control the NT box via PC anywhere by teling freesco to forward those ports to the NT box etc...It works great..give it a shot.

The only problem with it is You have to write down your passwords etc. once you set the thing up you never need to touch it...and will forget your passwords till the next time you add a server behind it and want to add some port forwarding rules :)

Jason