Re: [9fans] Firewall/NAT and importing outside interface

2020-05-10 Thread Charles Forsyth
> > If one is running a mail server and has it inside their firewall and if > using one IP then t has to use NAT. Couldn't one presumeably use the setup > above and run a mail server on Plan 9 and bypass having to use NAT? And > also do the same thing for a web server? Yes, I do that. The exampl

Re: [9fans] Firewall/NAT and importing outside interface

2020-05-08 Thread Robert Sherwood
I love the idea of importing the external interface to get outside the network. When I first read about this in Plan9, that's when the system really "clicked" for me. On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 1:08 PM hiro <23h...@gmail.com> wrote: > you can also have multiple ipstacks, working ipv6 and what have yo

Re: [9fans] Firewall/NAT and importing outside interface

2020-05-08 Thread hiro
you can also have multiple ipstacks, working ipv6 and what have you. cinap fixed a bunch of stuff in this regard. it's much more like linux network namespaces now, no limits to your creativity... -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups

[9fans] Firewall/NAT and importing outside interface

2020-05-08 Thread G B via 9fans
I ran across this old post by Dave Presotto when someone inquired about Plan 9 as a firewall: If you have multiple Plan 9 machines, you can use one as an inside/outside machine and just import it's outside interface onto the inside machines.  For example, this is how we configure our outside i