Re: [SLUG] Strange connectivity situation

From: Levi Bard (levi@bard.sytes.net)
Date: Fri May 28 2004 - 08:24:05 EDT


>I had a Linux 2.0.x router (used ipchains), and I had a situation
>something like this:
>
> 24.x.x.x 192.168.0.1
>+----|-----------|----+
>| eth1 eth0 |
>| outside inside |
>+---------------------+
>
>From inside, I could not connect to any port on the external interface.
>Then, I replaced it with a USR8054, and I could. So the logic within the
>router determines whether you can.
>
>Is that what you're seeing?
>
>

There has to be a rule within the router that directs traffic from eth0
back to eth0 (or in the case of the hw router, from the internal network
back to the internal network) in the case that you try to connect to
your own (external) address.
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