While the thought of buying another piece isn't too appealing to me (I have
a mylar bag with about 10 NIC's in it already) it looks like I might just
need to buy a switch and remove 2 NIC's. PMFirewall might be the answer.
Any other suggestions?
"Benjamin Reed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@linux-mandrake.com on 08/28/2000
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> Try doing a web search on PMFirewall. I use it myself and it is great!
> It's also really easy to set up, and easy to customise if you know
> what you're doing with ports & packet filtering. Sorry I can't
> remember the URL at the moment.
George, while I love PMFirewall (it's what I use at home) you may have a
little trouble with it. Last I used it, it only checks for an "external"
interface, and an "internal" interface. Since it's going to be acting as a
switch instead of a router (1 NIC card for each machine it's connecting to)
there will be 3 internals. PMFirewall doesn't think in terms of multiple
internal network interfaces.
It's probably not too difficult to hack in, but you may have better luck
with something else that can do what you want out of the box.
If you weren't trying to do it exactly as you're doing it, I'd say use
PMFirewall. Personally, I've never tried to set up a switch-style linux
router, so in my case, PMFirewall rocks! :)
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