Michael Segulja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
Hello there, If I correctly understand your case I think you can use SNF even if the external interface is connected to a hub, which is connected to your ISP ... The hub is just routing the information. I do the same thing here for tests: I isolate myself on a private network using an "external" interface wich goes to a hub and then to another private network. I have several computers on my own private network, so I imagine this your case... ______________________________ Yes, this is exactly what I am wanting to do. Thank you very much for responding so quickly. __________________ sincerely, -- Florin http://www.mandrakesoft.com Thanks again, Michael Segulja
