Hi Micah,
> I'm masquerading a cable modem connection using a single ethernet card
> in the server.
If I may say, this sounds like a very bad idea. Your local traffic travels on
the same cable as the internet traffic (unless the modem has some logic in it
to filter this - my cable modem doesn't). This means all your local traffic
will go over the cable modem as well. It will probably be filtered out at the
first hop, but if there is someone on your ISP's subnet doing the same thing
you will experience strange things. Someone on this adjacent subnet could set
his/her machine to an address in the same range as yours, this way bypassing
your firewall... Nice if you have WideOpen(tm) boxes on your local subnet.
Your neighbour could be accessing your shares without *any* problem. He won't
like your broadcasts for sure.
I guess you better spent $15 on a second nic and build yourself a proper
firewall.
Bye,
Leonard.
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