[linux-dvb] Re: EON and private IP

[Mihai Amariutei <mihai@ambra.ro>]

Well, it's not always that simple.
The received packets should then be routed back to the firewall to be
de-masqueraded ( and some firewalls will even refuse to accept those packets
from another interface).

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrei Boros" <andrei@srr.ro>
To: "linux-dvb" <linux-dvb@linuxtv.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 9:20 AM
Subject: [linux-dvb] EON and private IP


>
>  I saw some questions on how to use an EON account if you are behind a
> firewall with a private IP.
>
>  First, EON uses your IP address (in this case the IP address of the
> masquerading firewall) to send data to you. DVBD will create a filter so
it
> retrieves only the data addressed to the MAC address which has 2
predefined
> bytes and the rest are the bytes of your IP address.
>
>  You will have to edit dvbd.c and find the section where it takes the IP
> address it detects from the network device configured for internet use
> (usually ppp0, but whatever your case is here) and change those lines such
> that you manually set in the source the IP address of your masquerading
> firewall to be mapped into the MAC filter.
>
>  Of course, this assumes you know the firewall's IP address, and this IP
> is static.
>
>
> --
> ing. Andrei Boros
> Centrul pt. Tehnologia Informatiei
> Societatea Romana de Radiodifuziune
>
>
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