[ale] two connections to internet??

[Thompson Freeman]

Point taken - sortof. Financial considerations _do_ drive so much of my
own stuff...

OTOH, and the itch that caused me to jump in, I have the healing wounds
and old scars on my backside where the spare parts "solution" developed
teeth and turned around and bit me 8-/. It seems like spare slots make it
so much easier to avoid a solid bite from those teeth.

YMSV (Your milage should vary), and the implied critisism(sp?) which I
percieve now was not intended.

On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Leonard Thornton wrote:

> 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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> 

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Thompson Freeman          tfreeman at intel.digichem.net

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