Ralph Shumaker wrote: > Carl Lowenstein wrote: >> 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 >> > > Only cuz Stewart aligned the multiline connections on the right. This > should look all right fixed width *or* variable: > > <Internet> > | > <CableBox> > | > <Firewall> > | > <switch-or-hub> > |||| > |||+---<computer> > ||+----<computer> > |+-----<computer> > +------<computer> > . > . > . > > > (Tho I'm sure this probably won't scale well.) >
Looks allright for appropriate definitions of "allright", I suppose, but why would anybody be viewing email in anything other than fixed width font, anyway? O:-) Regards, ..j -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
