Re: IP addresses

[Eric Vyncke <evyncke @ cisco . com>]

As your proxy server can obviously perform NAT (Network Address
Translation), you only need one official IP address for
the proxy server.

All your internal PCs can use 'illegal' IP addresses (or even
better the 'private' addresses like 192.168.*.*) internaly.
As people going to the Internet will use the proxy server,
the source IP address of the IP datagram sent to the Internet
will always be the one of the proxy server.

<COMMERCIAL>
BTW, even if you do not use the MS Proxy, you can still use
the router used to connect to the Internet to perform NAT...
</COMMERCIAL>

Last paragraph probably bears my employeer flagrance ;-)

Best regards

-eric

At 11:17 21/10/97 +0300, Hisham Abdullatif Al-Rumaihi wrote:
>Hi,
>
>We have Class C network, and we have 400 internet users, 150 of them not
>
>using the internet, but they are using TCP/IP applications(Oracle).
>
>We have DHCP server running on NT 4.0, and Proxy server running on NT
>4.0 for accessing the internet through ip addresses.
>
>The problem is we are running out of IP addresses, and not all the users
>
>using the internet, is there a way to give the oracle users illegal ip
>addresses.
>
>Please can anybody help us.
>
>Thank you
>Hisham Al-Rumaihi
>
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