YES, YES, YES!
This is exactly what I see, especially since the ethernet cards latency is
so low in "bouncing" the packets... It is practically trying to transmit and
receive at the same time, but since each action generates acks, collisions
occur as those acks are retransmitted due to the line being busy...
-JMS
-----Original Message-----
From: Fuzzy Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: IP Masq List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, September 15, 1998 9:32 PM
Subject: Re: [masq] [masq] [masq] How do i configure ip masq in this
situation?
>Dave C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> eth0 65.202.10.11 assigned by DHCP (Cable Modem)
>> eth0:1 192.128.1.1
>>
>> I would agree, to make everything tightly secure a second NIC would do
>> this and I thought aliasing would provide me with a better than
>> nothing solution while not jeopardizing security.
>
>I suppose another factor might be performance. If a machine behind the
>masq firewall wants to send or receive a lot of data from the internet,
>that traffic will appear on your local LAN twice. Once when it goes
>between the masq box and the cable modem, and again when it travels
>(demasqueraded) from the masq box to the target machine. High collision
>rates could result.
>
>--
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fuzzy Fox) || "Nothing takes the taste out of
peanut
>sometimes known as David DeSimone || butter quite like unrequited love."
> http://www.dallas.net/~fox/ || -- Charlie
Brown
>---------------------------------------------------------------------
>To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>For daily digest info, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For daily digest info, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
