On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, WS Wong wrote:
> I am a newbie to Linux firewall. I downloaded the Dachstein image and
> installed in a P100 PC with 64MB RAM and two Linksys Ethernet cards.
> Every thing works fine connecting to a DSL modem on one end and my
> home PC on the other end of the firewall box.
>
> I have two spare 3Com 3C509B-TPO Ethernet ISA cards. I want to add
> the 3Com cards to the Linux firewall and have the one Linksys card and
> two 3Com cards working as a Hub. This way I can have a local three
> computers network that can talk to each other and share one ISP IP
> address for Internet access.
>
> Is it feasible to add the hub function into a floppy disk firewall
> box? Did anyone try this configuration before? What do I have to
> change and add to the network configuration module to add the Hub
> functions?
Theoretically possible, if you enable bridging, but not really worth the
trouble it will take.
Hubs and switches are too economical in their per-port cost these days to
consider using a computer instead. Really.
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