Make WAN address always respond as such (iptables rules?)

[Andrew Jorgensen]

To make this just a little more clear:  If my web server is on my
local network at home and my router is forwarding port 80 to it, I
want to be able to go to http://andrew.jorgensenfamily.us/ from home
or from work and get the same thing (without any fun DNS magic).  With
my old netgear router that worked great.  With OpenWRT I get the
router's config page, which I'd still like to be able to get to if I
go to http://192.168.0.1/

If that's still not clear just make fun of me :-)

Thanks in advance,
Andrew Jorgensen

On 1/22/07, Andrew Jorgensen <andrew.jorgensen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ever since I upgraded to a Linksys router running OpenWRT I've been
> wondering how I can get it to do something I really liked about my old
> Netgear router:  Make the WAN address always respond the same way from
> the inside (LAN) as it does from the outside (Internet).  For
> instance, if i hit port 80 on the router's outside address I want it
> to forward me to the web server behind the router whether I'm away
> from home or not.  As it is now trying to connect to the WAN address
> always gets me the same thing as if I had tried to connect to the
> router's LAN address, even though the IP's are different.
>
> To put that in terms of firewall rules I want the packets destined for
> the WAN address to be processed by the rules for the WAN interface
> regardless of which interface they came in on... I think.
>
> If that didn't make sense please ask a clarifying question.  I tried,
> really I did.  Is there some way to make this happen?
>