Hi,

I recently obtained a Public IP Address.

We are managing Internet access with a firewall (ipchains)

The outside eth (eth0) get's the address via DHCP from the ADSL router.

What do I have to do to assign the IP to the board so that I can setup services like WEBSvr/ftp and others. Or is this not recomended on the same machine?


My current configiguration is

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:21:44:2A:75
inet addr:10.9.0.18 Bcast:10.9.0.23 Mask:255.255.255.248
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3818406 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3949863 errors:9 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:18
collisions:706 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xf780
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:7D:77:B2:FB
inet addr:100.50.25.3 Bcast:100.50.25.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:4362102 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3886650 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1
collisions:5705 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:9 Base address:0xf740
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1
RX packets:558 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:558 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

I believe you need to be able to dynamically update your assigned name to the ip.
Check if this is available.
grtz

No Grtz isn't available (not as a linux command anyway)

grtz isn't available??? That's odd

How did you obtain your public IP? From your ISP? They should provide you with the info on how to use it or they should configure things for you.

Did you get just one public IP? If so, your ISP has probably configured your ADSL router to use it. You still need nat on router and you need to configure port forwarding on it to send ftp/www/etc. traffic to your firewall. Then the firewall needs to send it to the actual servers.

If you have a range of IPs assigned, you could disable NAT on the router and put the servers with public IPs outside of the firewall.

Either way, your ISP tech support is the place to call.