Mike Patterson wrote: > ... > So my questions are: > * Can I have two ne-2000 compatible cards in the same system?
You can stop other drivers from probing i/o ports and tell them which port to use as well, so it doesn't have to be 2 ne2k's -- other cards will do, too. Some ne2k's have to be initially set up using DOS software, btw. > * assuming the gateway can pump data extremely fast, will I be > losing a ton of permformance by going from 10baseT to thin BNC? Why? Thinwire is 10base2, still 10Mbps. > In other words, should I switch my whole system to 10BaseT instead? > (Downloads are VIA satellite... That can be fast.) 10baseT will be easier to upgrade to 100/1000baseT later on. I don't think it matters in your case, but I may be wrong. > 3) Ok, now let's say one of the "A Machine"s is a Linux box that uses PPP to > > hook into a secure site (behind a firewall). Let's say (oh, for > example) > that everything behind the firewall is 15.19.*.*, and the machine is > assigned an address for PPP that is in th 15.19 domain. What this machine > would want to do is communicate with the PPP line for everything behind th > firewall, and communicate with the fileserver/gateway for everything else > -- > I assume requiring it to look like a diffrent IP number for each (remembe > r, > the Server/Gateway will be using masquerading). So the question is, how > can I do this and ensure that people on other machines in the network can > 't > get to the 15.19 domain? Assume that I'm the only one that can log onto t > he > Linux System I just described... (whew!) Well... sounds like a box with 2 network i/faces -- the fact that one of them is a ppp link, not a 2nd network card doesn't make much difference. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > > 4) I can't for the life of me figure out what the startup files are defined > as > or where they are defined (say, .login and .startup.x11 from my old dec > days) Dot files (per-user config) are in ~ or its subdirectories, system-wide files are in /etc and its subdirs. Is that what you're looking for? -- Dimitri emaziuk at curtin dot edu dot au -------------------------------- Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .