On 9/9/07, Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> The fastest and easiest way is to get a little firewall box. They're
> small, quiet, and cheap. You'd connect it so:
>
>
> <Internet>--<CableBox>--<Firewall>--<switch-or-hub>--<computer>
> | | +----<computer>
> | +-------<computer>
> +----------<computer>
> .
> .
> .
>
> If you want to set it up so that you use a computer (e.g., linux box)
> to be your firewall, you'd add a second network card to that computer,
> and then put it where "<Firewall>" is in the above diagram.
>
> It helps to draw a picture of what you have and what you want.
It also helps greatly to view the ASCII picture in a fixed-width font. :-)
carl
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