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Aaron wrote:
I have a webserver on my home G4, it works fine and my domain is
forwarded to my home web server and it can be found via web browser.
But now I want to add my Belkin Router, Airport Base Sation (not
Extreme) and Win XP system. Can anyone give me some advice on how to
set this up properly so it is not only effecient, but secure and of
course working properly.
Thanks.
Setup is as follows and need to put puzzle together.
G4 (500mhz 10.3.9, running as web server),
Belkin Router, Airport Base Station, netgear 4-port hub, Windows XP CPU
with Wireless card.
Get a basic home networking book. In a nutshell, you want to have some
sort of NATting router "edge box" and create an internal network of non-routeable addresses. Connect the hub to this edge box. Connect all
your internal machines (and the wireless access point) to the hub.
Then you set up a filter on the edge box to forward traffic on your
external IP, port 80 to the internal webserver IP and appropriate port.
If the Airport Base Station can do filtering and port-forwarding, then
you can attach that to the outside connection and enable NAT. Attach
the hub to the base station and setup forwarding from the outside to the inside web server. I don't know the specific features of the Airport
device (I have an express used only as an access point that I attach to
my hub) so your mileage may vary.
Name resolution may be a problem. You either have to setup static IP addresses for everything (simple) or setup some sort of resolver (like
named). Perhaps the Airport has a solution for this (many edge boxes
also do this).
Work from the simplest case, adding things as you go.
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