Re: Anyone Make an Off the Shelf DHCP Proxy NAT / Firewall?
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Re: Anyone Make an Off the Shelf DHCP Proxy NAT / Firewall?

From: Volker Birk <bumens@dingens.org>
Date: Sat Dec 31 2005 - 13:18:30 CET

Will <DELETE_westes@earthbroadcast.com> wrote:
> I'm looking for a commodity small LAN firewall / NAT box that would support
> a DHCP proxy feature on its *external* interface, and then send those DHCP
> requests to a specific host behind the arp.
> My application is that I have a Windows 2003 domain controller that I would
> like to have act as a DHCP server for the computers in its domain. The
> clients would be in front of a firewall / NAT and the domain controller
> would be behind the firwall / NAT. I want to find an NAT that would
> present a DHCP proxy on its external interface and send those requests to
> the domain controller.

This is not a good idea. Better use a VPN.

Yours,
VB.

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Received on Tue Jan 3 03:40:21 2006