[NTLUG:Discuss] Graphical Explanation

[Michael Patrick]

As I understand it, he would be doing:

external-ip-1:80 --> internal-ip-1:80
external-ip-2:80 --> internal-ip-2:80

This should be fine.

I'll go look at the diagram again just to make sure.

Michael

On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 01:25:15PM -0500, Victor Brilon wrote:
> Your setup looks pretty easy to set up except for one major stumbling block.
> There's no way to have 2 machines on the internal network respond to the
> same port. For example, you have 2 NAT'ed machines listening on port 80.
> When a request comes in for a connection on port 80, how would the
> firewall/NAT box know which machine it should forward the request to?
> 
> If you kept the port number different between all the different machines
> (for example, running your mail-web service on port 8080 or something), then
> your setup is pretty easy to accomplish.
> 
> Victor
>