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Re: network configuration issue - iptables

From: Adam Hardy <adam.ant(at)cyberspaceroad.com>
Date: Thu Jun 28 2007 - 18:07:01 EDT


Andrew Sackville-West on 25/06/07 04:27, wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 08:35:09PM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote:

>> I have set up a network for our house using a gateway server with etch and 
>> two NICs, eth1 for the internal network and eth2 for the DSL modem.
>>
>> I set up iptables with firewall-builder and all seems OK, but I can only 
>> ever access the web interface on the DSL modem from the gateway server 
>> directly after downing the internal network on eth1.
>>
>> The modem's web interface is on 192.168.1.1 on eth2 and if I don't down 
>> eth1, the browser won't find it.

>
> number your internal lan addresses in a different subnet. Use
> 192.168.2.x for your lan. Then, because the modem is on a different
> subnet, it should "just work". At least in my lan it works that
> way. My dsl modem is accessible as 192.168.0.1 while my lan is
> 192.168.1.x.
>
> also, you can sometimes (depending on how its all configured) access
> the modem by browsing to your *public ip* which resolves to your
> modem, but since you're coming form the inside, it gives you the
> configuration.

That worked! Respect to you. I have only a small grasp of what my iptables config does, but it works.

Fortunately I recently set up DHCP for my whole LAN so it was just a case of changing the internal LAN in two or three files on the server from 192.168.1.* to 192.168.0.*

Thanks for the idea.

Adam

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