[ale] two connections to internet??

[Leonard Thornton]

Wht not build a single firewall with 3 Ethernet cards? (2 external 
connection and 1 internal connection)  Setup you DSL as a primary route 
and the cable as secondary in your routing entries.  Use NAT and 
prtforwarding to route traffic to your mail / web / ftp servers on the 
internal network from the outside world.



Gary MacKay wrote:

> Ok, here's a weird question for you. I had RoadRunner service and
> recently installed a DSL line so I could have a dedicated IP. (Yes, I'm
> aware of dyndns.org, but choose not to for now.) Currenly my firewall
> box is connected to the DSL and my cable modem is sitting here mocking
> me with it's little blinking lights. It was way faster than this DSL,
> and I just can't bring myself to shut if off. My question is, can I have
> both? :) Something like this?
> 
> 
>                      Internet             Internet
>                          |                    |
>                      firewall 1           firewall 2
>                          |                    |
>                          +------- hub --------+
>                                    |
>                                   / \
>                               mail   workstation(s)
>                               srvr
> 
> I envision just setting the gateway address of my workstion(s) to
> firewall-2 so I can enjoy the fast connection for every day browsing,
> but the email/web server will use firewall-1 as it's gateway so the
> fixed IP will work for it. Will it work? An added benefit would be if
> one goes down, I could switch the gateway addr and keep browsing!
> 
> I realize I could split them apart as two seperate networks, but then my
> workstations would have to go out the cable modem and back in the DSL
> line to check email. Seems kind of wierd when the boxes sit about four
> inches apart!!
> 
> - Gary
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Leonard Thornton
Intelis, Inc
leonard at intelis-inc.net


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