Re: dnat question

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On Monday 23 February 2004 9:23 pm, John Black wrote:

> Since i'm  running separate servers for FTP, Mail, and Web, and using dnat
> to port forward to these machines. Do i need these ports open on the
> firewall?

No.   You are not running the services on the firewall, therefore you don't 
need the ports open on the firewall.   The firewall is simply passing the 
packets on to somewhere else.

Antony.

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