On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 07:57:02PM -0700, Sheilafel Vida wrote: > hi! we had run the ltsp on the Compaq computer already! thanks a lot guys >....:) > > our problem now is to be able to connect to the internet. they're > telling us to make a gateway-using two lan cards. one is for the > 192.168.0.254 address and the other for another. we don't know how > to do this...
Perhaps I missed some previous post, but if I did not: The normal meaning of a gateway is one host on a local network that accepts packets that is not addressed to it but to another networks to which the gateway resend those packages. The normal use of LTSP is having all applications run on one server, and let the server have two NICs: one for LTSP traffic, and the other for internet traffic. If this is what you need, then just add another NIC to the LTSP server, connect it to "the internet", configure it with the correct gateway, netmask etc and you are done. This setup has the advantage of not mixing internet traffic with LTSP traffic. It might be questioned if what you have should be called a "gateway" though. Another approach is to have a real gateway: A machine that accepts packages addressed to other networks and resends these packages further. In that case, every machine that need internet access (at least the LTSP server, if you use local apps that need internet access then these boxes also) must be configured to use that box as a gateway. This setup will mix internet traffic and LTSP traffic so if you have a fast internet connection and a slow local network (an unlikely combination it seems), there might be a performance hit. -- Hans Ekbrand
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