Chris Buechler wrote:
>What exactly are you trying to accomplish? You shouldn't need to
>forward a bunch of ports.
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>-Chris
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How would all my servers be accessible from the outside if many ports
aren't forwarded? I'll have a bunch of services running like mail, http,
ftp, ssh, vnc, and a number of others. If you consider just the ftp, for
example, which should be able to work in PASV mode, that will require
that a number of random ports be forwarded to the server. On my old
setup, DMZ was the only way to get this to work properly, especially at
times when port usage is simply unknown.
In either case, this just seems to be like an easy thing to do, so maybe
a feature for the next release? Basically in NAT forwarding create an
ability to specify if a port is not forwarded to any specific host, then
in should go to the default one. Just a thought... |