[ILUG] Smoothwall problems

[Conor Daly]

On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 08:22:32AM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Fergal Moran thought:
> 
> Maybe mailservers was a bad example - in fact I don't know why I said it
> because we are only running one mailserver in here.  What I really should
> have said is webservers - because we will be running squillions of them here
> all on port 80.  

I guess you'll need to use IPV6 numbers, squillions won't fit into IPV4

> No - we aren't looking for round robin or any kind of load balancing dealy
> here just to route requests straight through to the appropriate machine...
> 
> > More details of exactly what you are trying to do and we 
> > might be able to be
> > of more help.
> 
> Basically what we want is if a packet is sent to port n on machine
> aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd then we want it to end up at port n on machine
> aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd.  Can this be done with smoothwall - or indeed anything
> running under linux or do we need some more fancy gizmos

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't this just a matter of opening port 80
all-all?  Is aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd a routable IP address?

Conor
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