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  From: Andrew Reid <andrew.reid@plug.cx>
  To  : Michael Kratz <michael_kratz@hotmail.com>
  Date: 31 May 2001 13:24:56 +0930

Re: Unidentified subject!

On 31 May 2001 12:42:51 +0930, Michael Kratz wrote:

> 1. in the past I have setup aliases on eth0, eth0 being the connection to 
> the LAN, these aliases have been for example for mail, nameserver and www. 
> now if I am going to be using a private subnet for the lan, eth0 must then 
> have a private address, my question is then if I still want to setup my 
> aliases for the machine do I or can I rather, set them up on the ppp0 
> connection, or can I still set them up on eth0??

You setup your aliases on eth0. A common usage for aliases on
Internet-facing devices is when you want more than one address available
to the outside world on the one connection.

> 2. If I use squid and explicitly only want www traffic to go through to the 
> outside world, do I have to actually MASQ the traffic, or if the clients are 
> using squid on the gateway will that cover it automatically??

No, Masquerading is not necessary assuming that you only want people to
access the outside world via the proxy server.

   - andrew

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