The company I work for uses and ISP that is two doors down from our office. They just ran an Ethernet cable from their location to ours to provide our Internet connection. I'm curious to find out if I could use Mandrake SNF as a firewall for this connection. I want to run their Ethernet connection into an 8 port hub, and then run one network card from the firewall to this hub, and the other network card to our LAN. The cable coming from the ISP is not a crossover cable, so I cannot just connect it directly to the firewall machine. Will it work to connect it this way? Or do I need to have the external interface connected directly to the network card on the firewall machine? We are currently using an SMC Barricade with a WAN port for the firewall, but I would like to replace that with Mandrake SNF if this will work.
Thank you very much for your help,
Michael Segulja
