On Sat, 18 Aug 2001, Donald J Bindner wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 07:14:12PM -0500, Ben Story wrote:
> >
> > I'm moving back to campus this weekend and will be wanting to
> > share a Cable connection with my new roommate. Cash is a
> > little tight right now so I'm not really wanting to buy a
> > router or another NIC for my board. Is there a way to share my
> > connection just using one NIC and a switch? Basically can I
> > have one alias get a DHCP IP from the provider and the other
> > alias have a static 192.168.x.x address for my internal LAN
> > even though they're on the same NIC?
> >
> > Ben
>
> You might. Check the kernel source for an option called ipalias.
> As I recall, it lets you have more than one IP address on the
> same NIC.
>
> Don
It's possible using ipalias, but
1) it doesn't offer the advantages of a firewall to the other computer
2) it's pretty inefficient in a couple ways.
3) in general, it's just not a recommended configuration.
4) nics are _really_ cheap now, just get another nic.
Hope that sums up my position.
Thelema
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