Yes, I would have to concur with the advise already rendered. If your desire is to make a gateway/router machine configured with a firewall, you need to have each nic on its own subnet with a different mask for both nics. By not knowing your network typology, I can not make specific suggestions. I would, however, suggest that a multihomed system should consist of something on the order of a gateway/router with one interface on the internet, and one interface on the private LAN. There a various methods for doing this, and it would be up to your network needs as to what method would be best for you. In case my setup might help, here is what I have done: internet-->gateway/router-->hub-->LAN The interface for the gateway/router has a internet IP address, and the interface for the LAN has a private network IP, i.e. 192.168.x.x. If you keep in mind what you want from your design, you can keep it simple. Hope this helps... -- J. Craig Woods UNIX SA -Art is the illusion of spontaneity-
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