Thanks Seth! That just saved me a static IP for my webserver. :-)
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 05:59:03PM -0700, Seth wrote:
> > 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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