> So my brain just started bending.  The issue for me is that I still
> need my wireless notebook to have a public ip address so I can do 
> videoconferencing.

so network it this way:

>  I currently have three static IPs assigned to me. 
> I've got a linux gateway with one of the static IPs, and also serving
> a private network (192.168.*.*) - so eth0 has a static, and eth1 has
> 192.168.1.1 .

fine....

> So what would this mean?  Would this process work?  :
> 1. Put wireless card in linux gateway as eth2 (that's the third nic!)
> 2. Assign another static IP address to eth2

Nope, assign it as 192.168.1.something

> 3. Put another wireless card in my notebook
> 4. Assign static IP to my notebook's nic

right

> 5. Set notebook's gateway to be the ip of my linux gateway's eth2 ?

Nope, assign gateway as eth0, and make sure that eth2 will forward....
make sure that eth0 will route back the other way too.

eth2 doesn't need to be public ip

Seth


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