Re: Routing 2 different streams from the same IP address

<cbell@qch.on.ca> wrote in message
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> Hi All,
>
> Forgive my ignorance, but I am not really the network admin I'm just
> trying to get information to understand our problem better.
>
> We have a box that runs 2 different applications that both send
> interfaced data. We are in a situation now that requires us to route
> the 2 streams over the the same firewall (Cisco PIX) to 2 different IP
> addresses and ports. The issue we are having is that the streams come
> from the same IP and we can't use port translation as each time the
> application opens a conenction it grabs any available port (we are
> unable to set a static port to send from on the applications). So we
> haven't figured out how to seperate the streams since we can't define
> the port they are originating from.
>
> Basically IP n.n.n.140 sends 2 streams of data over 2 different ports
> that are dynamically chosen from the normal range. Stream A needs to go
> to destination n.n.n.8 port 850, and stream B needs to go to
> destination n.n.n.14 port 6343.
>
> Any ideas to set us on the correct path would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Cory
>

I don't think PIX's do Policy Based Routing. I could be wrong - but its not
that common on firewalls.
Received on Sat Oct 15 04:35:35 2005