The set-up to the question is I picked up a decently modern wireless router to play with. I allow no connection to the internet (nothing in the WAN port). I have a couple of computers I can connect to the wired ports of the router (assign static IPs within the subnet but outside the DHCP range). These machines (both *NIX boxes) will provide services such as a web server and a mud/game server. The router will allow open access to anyone who wants to connect (I want to provide my own content for experimentation). Since I have physical control of the hardware I'm not too worried about security.
Initially I'd like to be able to redirect all http traffic not bound for my web server to my web server. For example someone trying to get to Google will get my info page instead. But if someone were trying to access a different page on the same machine would still be able to connect.
I've done the RTFM thing and got confused. The manual seems to dance around the issue but doesn't seem to say anything which looks to be appropriate. The firewall is used mainly to filter incoming (from the WAN port) traffic. IP filters control the outbound (to the WAN port) filtering. The routing page talks about routing requests to a specific IP outside the LAN side. Virtual servers route requests from the WAN side to a specific LAN address. The port forwarding section looked more like an extension to the firewall page.
Here is what I'd like to do graphically.
Rule 1: LAN requests non-192.168.X.Y web page --> Router says "You must mean 192.168.X.Y" --> Router sends traffic to 192.168.X.Y/index.html Rule 2: LAN requests 192.168.X.Y/whatever.html --> Router passes along the request to 192.168.X.Y web server
The question is how can I do this? I know I've missed something, but the manual didn't seem to help. I'll admit to not checking Google, but I'm not sure what search terms to use.
This ties in with the wireless questions I was asking a couple of months ago. After I get this working I'll be looking at authentication for other services and extending the range of coverage.
Later Mike