Re: Is there such thing as a multiple external IP to Lan IP firewall/router???

From: Lars M. Hansen (badnews@hansenonline.net)
Date: 09/18/02 

From: Lars M. Hansen <badnews@hansenonline.net>
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 23:53:54 GMT

On Tue, 17 Sep 2002 10:36:30 -0600, Archie Campbell spoketh

>re: "Just setting up 1-to-1 NAT doesn't do much unless you create a rule
>that
> specifically allows certain types of traffic to access the server."
>Yes, makes sense to me.
>So is my impression of Sonicwall correct - that it is bad because they dont
>seem to ask for a port, just the internal and external addresses, that what
>they do is not a good thing?
>Or, am I missing something?
>Thanks
>Archie
>

You're missing something. 1-to-1 NAT will NOT allow any traffic to pass
from the outside to the LAN until you create a rule to allow it. Since
the rule specify source, destination and service (port), it's all taken
good care of.

Lars M. Hansen
http://www.hansenonline.net
(replace 'badnews' with 'lars' in e-mail address)

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