Now I have masquerading running successfully through a single NIC on the
Linux server. But does assigning both private and public IP on to the
same NIC for masquerading pose any security threat?
Thanks,
Uk
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>
> UK Jaiswal on Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 08:43:47PM +0530 rearranged electrons thusly:
>
> > # Will it be possible to go ahead with IP masquerading without
> > installing a second NIC (by doing network aliasing on one NIC) on the
> > Gateway Linux machine and without adding another HUB?
>
> You can bind two ips to the same nic ... if your kernel supports it (the stock
> pcq redhat does)
>
> ifconfig eth0 ... whatever local address
> ifconfig eth0:1 ... whatever public ip
>
> -suresh
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