[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'll have three boxes that will need to have static IPs for one reason
> or another. Could I instead easily just make one be a firewall for itself
> and the other two so I don't have to get myself yet another linux box?
> How would that work? Second nic to be the gateway of the other two even
> if the other two still have static IPs? Which document/book should I
> read to teach me about the more advanced parts of LAN networking?
I evaded these questions in my first response. Lemme try again.
Yes, you can almost certainly do what you want. You may want to set
up the front machine as a bridge instead of a router. A bridge does
not have an IP address. You actually want a half-bridge -- it has an
IP address on the ISP side, but no address on the LAN side.
Take a look at the Bridge mini-HOWTO and the Bridge+Firewall
mini-HOWTO. The part about configuring a kernel for multiple NICs is
obsolete, and ipfw has been superceded by ipchains.
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