Public Services

Overview

If you have several machines on a local network at home, you may also wish to make a service available to others that isn't on the same machine as your firewall.

In other words, if you have a webserver on your local network, but it's not the same machine as the firewall/IP Sharing machine, you can use BrickHouse to redirect incoming traffic for the web service and send it to the webserver machine behind your firewall.

Adding A Service

Select the External Gateway that the redirected service will appear on. Click 'Add Service'. Select one of the common services from the menu, or select 'Custom Service' and enter the protocol and port number.

You also need to enter the internal IP address of the machine that will handle the service traffic, and the port that it will handle the traffic on. If you're not sure, using the same port number as appears under the Incoming Service menu would be a likely answer.

Don't forget that you also need to add filters to 'Allow' incoming traffic on the services that you wish to redirect to internal machines!
 
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