[ale] two connections to internet??

[Leonard Thornton]

If you are like me, you are building systems with scrap parts, bandaids 
and chewing gum....no money for those new high tech, hi density cards!!! :)

Thompson Freeman wrote:

> At that point, why soak up three bus slots with NICs? There are cards
> which support 2,4 and more ethernet connections (_not_ internal hubs -
> full ethernet adaptors). The software setup remains the same as with
> separate cards, but you haven't consumed all expansion slots.  Possibly
> bad security, but add a firewalled modem with the saved slot. 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Leonard Thornton wrote:
> 
> 
>>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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>>
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Leonard Thornton
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