Re: Funky Firewall - Engineering Request

On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 10:57 -0700, George Toft wrote:
> I have a problem and am wondering how the brightest Linux brains of
> Phoenix would solve it.
>
> Problem:
> A certain web site that my family enjoys will not allow multiple
> computers from the same IP address to use the site at the same time. I
> currently have a Linux firewall with 2 NICs - one for the Internet and
> one for my LAN running NAT so all of my systems have the same public IP
> address.
>
> Qwest allows me 4 IP addresses, and I would like to take advantage of
> them so we can have more than one computer at the site at one time.
>
>
> Problem Statement:
> Build a firewall that:
> 1. Allows each computer on the LAN to send traffic out a different IP
> address on the Internet side of the firewall.
> 2. Filters all outgoing traffic though DansGuardian/squid.
>
> Essentially, each computer in the house would appear to have its own NAT
> firewall, and I don't want to actually deploy 3 more hardware firewalls.
>
>
> Random thoughts so far:
> 1. Set up box with 4 copies of VMWare running - each with a copy of the
> existing firewall.
>
> 2. Set up usermode Linux and have each one run a firewall & proxy. I'm
> pretty fuzzy on this stuff.
>
> 3. Bind multiple IP's to each NIC, and attempt to set up the iptables
> script from hell.
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#3 seems the most logical and easiest to implement. You can have a mini
BOFH scheme by bandwidth shaping too.

Craig

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