[ale] two connections to internet??

[Leonard Thornton]

No criticism taken....just another point of view...

Thompson Freeman wrote:

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


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