[ale] two connections to internet??

[Leonard Thornton]

Deja' Vu....

Joseph Andrew Knapka wrote:

> Thompson Freeman wrote:
> 
>>OK. Blue sky wondering here, but hopefully to get a decent education out
>>of the deal (Thanks to one and all! 8-))
>>
>>One firewall box, four ether interfaces: one to the DSL, one to the cable
>>modem, and two for the internal network. Each of the internal interfaces
>>points (NAT) to only one external interface, and each internal machine
>>is assigned to an internal interface for gateway purposes. Rather a brute
>>hardware approach, but would it work until a proper and dynamic software
>>solution was developed?
>>
> 
> Yes, I think that would work. In fact you can probably
> to do it with one internal card with multiple addresses using
> interface aliasing, since IIRC ipchains' masquerading rules
> are based in IP address, not on interface identity. But
> I may not be recalling correctly; it's been a while since
> I used ipchains. And the ipchains internals might care
> about interface identity even if the user-visible rules
> are expressed in terms of IP addresses. So mutiple
> internal cards would be better (as in, certain to work
> without much fuss).
> 
> 



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The difficult while you wait...the impossible overnight.

Leonard Thornton
Intelis, Inc
leonard at intelis-inc.net


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