Hi Charles. Do I understand you correctly like that:
- nothing in hardware should change, i.e. the cable-modem should still go into one external NIC. If the ISP gives me 2 IPs, those could go to that same NIC. If so, it sounds good regarding the hardware config. And I digged into the dhclient config but could not see anything clearer about how to make 2 interfaces from one NIC. Is that the notion of IP aliasing? Should I use eth0 and eth1, or eth0:0 and eth0:1. Do I need any special kernel or the DCD 1.0.1 is already supporting that feature? Could you shed some light? Thanks a lot, Charles and have a nice weekend. -----Original Message----- From: Charles Steinkuehler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 12:19 PM To: Binh Do Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Leaf-user] How to connect the router with 2 external IPs ... Normally, you only need one external NIC for this...you simply configure the router so it responds to both IP's on the same interface. > Charles, you mentioned something about the public DMZ network. Could you > explain me a little bit more so I can see if it is worth to have 2 IPs or > not. If you have two IP's, you can assign one to your firewall, and one to a server system. This is very helpful if you're hosting a lot of services, but in most cases is not absolutely necessary. You can port-forward particular services from the firewall to a server machine as well. NOTE: There are a few services that don't like being port-forwarded, but most of the common ones (web, e-mail) work fine. NOTE: You can still port-forward services from your firewall, even if you've got two IP's. Charles Steinkuehler http://lrp.steinkuehler.net http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror) _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
