anyone able to take a look at this please?

On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 00:16, Jordan T. wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> I have site where im using monowall 1.2b3 that is setup like this:
> 
> WAN: X.X.164.225/29 - ethernet to fibre converter
> LAN: 192.168.100.254/24 - ethernet to switch
> OPT1: Bridge to LAN - ethernet to cisco VPN router
> 
> 
> Our ISP has given us two subnets to use:
> X.X.164.224/29 and X.X.165.52/30
> 
> Server 192.168.100.3 on the LAN interface is hosting some virtual
> websites, which have a reverse dns of the WAN IP, which port 80 is being
> NAT'd to. However workstations on the LAN cant access them because of
> the problem where by you cant NAT a packet over an interface that it
> originated from.
> 
> So I want to route the second subnet onto the LAN so I can assign the
> server X.X.165.54 but in order to do this I will need to assign the
> monowall's LAN interface a second IP of X.X.165.53 to be the gateway.
> 
> I guess i have two questions here:
> 
> 1) how can i assign the LAN interface a second IP
> 2) when i do this, will the device route the subnet like i want or will
> something different happen all together?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help.
> 
> Jordan.