On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 04:41, John Chronakis wrote:
I am setting up a lan for a small business which will also connect to the Internet with SDSL and 8 real IP subnet. The gateway will be a suse box. I only need 2 servers with real ips. The rest of the pcs will be clients.
Do you have any suggestions? I cannot make up my mind.
Do you really need more than one static public IP? Even though you have 2 servers, are they not, say, a web server and a mail server or something? What I mean is: don't they do different things? You could tell the world through DNS that all the services you offer come from the gateway/firewall, and forward only those ports needed for the services to the servers on the inside. This is all very straightforward with SuSEfirewall2, but you'll wind up needing a dual DNS server process strategy in any case. Regards, dk