Benjamin Reed wrote:
>
> > 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 don't know if you really need to get new hardware just for this if you've
> already got the NICs, you'll just have to spend a little time (probably)
> learning IPChains. There are very few ipchains "wrappers" that handle more
> than one internal NIC (that I know of), and unless you want to fork out the
> money for a switch instead of a hub, you'll probably get better performance
> with multiple NICs. :)
If u want 1 NIC on Linux per client PC, do u need special
"straight thru" cat5, in order to run wire diectly from the
client to the Linux box? Otherwise, wouldn't u need a hub
NIC on your linux box?
Ron
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