I need help with IPCop.

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 20:11 -0700, Matthew A Coulliette wrote:
> Hi Lisa & Eric,
> 
> 
> Questions:
> Can you just assign an ip number to a computer? Or does something up
> stream of it, (a computer, router, dhcp server, whatever), have to be
> made aware of that computer's ip number.
> 
> Example, when I assign static ip's on the green zone, I always enter the
> ip on both IPCop and the workstation. I setup the network interfaces for
> my data server (192.168.0.2) and it worked like a charm, however, I
> entered the static ip on both IPCop and the data server. Assuming, I
> enter an ip on the web server (192.168.2.2), on what machine upstream of
> the web server do I enter the ip?
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I suppose what you are trying to accomplish here would clarify the
question. Are you wanting Internet based computers to be able to access
your web server in the orange? If that is the case, the mapping of an
external IP address would have to be directed to the computer in the
orange zone.
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> 
> Eric Shubert wrote:
> > I believe you'll need to forgo dhcp and just give it a static address. 
> > That's what I do. Only servers on the orange subnet anywise.
> > 
> > Note, you can add your orange server(s) to the 'hosts' list with it's 
> > (orange subnet) address, so that computers on the green network can get 
> > it's address via dhcp/dns and access it via its private (orange subnet) 
> > address. Make sure that dhcp is configured to specify the ipcop itself 
> > as the dns resolver for your green subnet.
> Okay, this helps. But, isn't the 'hosts' list just to help the
> 192.168.0.1 dns name server?
> 
> 
> 
> Here is what I did. Can you tell me why it did not work?
> 
> First, I added the web server's ip (192.168.2.2) to IPCop's 'hosts' list.
> 
> 
> Then on the Ubuntu Web Server:
> vi /etc/network/interfaces
> #The loopback network interface.
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
> 
> #The primary network interface.
> auto eth0
> iface eth0 inet static
> address 192.168.2.2
> gateway 192.168.2.1
> netmask 255.255.255.0
> network 192.168.2.0
> broadcast 192.168.2.255
> 
> vi /etc/resolv.conf
> search 25century.org (same as green)
> nameserver 192.168.0.1 (green nic)
> (IPCop says not to use IPCop for the orange DNS. What name server should
> I use?)
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Orange zone computers should use external DNS server, probably the one
supplying your Internet bandwidth (Cox? Qwest? Other?)

Craig


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