On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 12:46:59PM -0800, Cory Petkovsek wrote:
>pinging google, google will be responding to the left ear(nic), but your
>firewall will be listening to its right ear, meanwhile wondering what
>this junk data is on it's left ear.
That's not really a problem... Unless you explicitly disallow traffic with
one address on the other interface (through iptables, etc), or your
up-stream ISP does so for you (which happens, particularly on
cable-modems).
You'd be amazed what you can get away with...
Sean
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