>Shows I still have a lot to learn about Xen.  Am I right in thinking 
>your setup will still only allow one DomU to use the public IP?

Correct - but see below.

>I went over the Tom's documentation again and I see that although 
>eth0 has several public IPs, both DomUs (eth3/4) are using the same 
>public IP (206.124.146.176).  Won't this setup allow multiple DomUs 
>to share a single public IP?

Port forwarding and/or proxy arp. IIRC, in Tom's current setup, he 
uses proxy-arp to pass-through certain IPs to machines behind the 
router. In the case where you only have one public address, then you 
will need to 'port forward' certain traffic to certain hosts - see 
DNAT.

>What is the difference between a "Hardware nat" and Xen-natted that 
>makes it impossible to firewall?

Not sure what you mean by 'hardware nat'. The problem with Xen, NAT, 
and firewalling is that Xen makes the networking environment very 
complicated. I really am a loooong way from understanding it, but 
from comments made by people (liek Tom) who know more than I do it 
could be that the way the traffic passes through the various bits of 
networking system means that it does not pass though the right places 
in the right order to also support NAT in a meaningful way.

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