What are your rules like?

On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 15:45 +1300, Paul McWhinnie wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I would like some advice on the setup of my home network.  I have an
> endian firewall with 3 nics, of which I am using 2 nics currently (1
> red, 1 green).
> 
> Green is a home network of 4 pcs.
> 
> I now have a NAS box that I will be using for streaming AV to the pcs in
> the green zone.  Due to cabling constraints in the house and a lack of
> spare switch ports, I would like to use the spare nic on the firewall to
> connect the NAS.
> 
> I thought I would just attach the NAS to the spare nic using ethernet
> cross-over and then configure another green, or use the blue zone.
> 
> Trouble is, I've tried both these scenarios and cannot manage to get it
> working.  I can see the link is up on nic3, but cannot ping the NAS
> device at all.  When I had the nics as 2 greens, the NAS had an address
> from the green zone range.  When I configured the spare nic as blue, I
> used a seperate subnet.
> 
> Should I be going about this differently?  Am I missing something?
> Advice greatly appreciated.
> 
> Paul McWhinnie


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