Tim Perton wrote:
I want my users to do a request like
http://a.b.c.d/1.php and then machine A to make the
same request to System B, get the results and send
them back to the user transparently.
Technically you can do what you are wanting to do. However there are a
few caveats that you need to be aware of when doing such.
1) System B will see System A as the connecting host, not the real client.
2) If System B is not ""behind System A (as you have described it to
not be) it will have to send the traffic back to System A which will
then send the traffic back to the client. Translation, System B can not
send the traffic directly to the client with out breaking the TCP
connection state on the client.
3) System A will be using more bandwidth by doing this.
If all the above are ok with you, consider doing the following on system A.
# Port forward web traffic originally to System A over to System B.
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i $INet -d $SystemA_IP -p tcp --dport 80
-j DNAT --to-destination $SystemB_IP:$SystemB_Port
# SNAT traffic to System B's web server to appear to be from System A.
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o $INet -d $SystemB_IP -p tcp --dport
$SystemB_Port -j SNAT --to-source $SystemA_IP
If you have any questions, ask.
Grant. . . .
