Something else to consider: for 10 extra dollars a month you cann get 3
ip's instead of 1 from CableOne. Unfortunately they don't officially
support linux and I have not been able to get their system to assign my
linux box an IP.
Brian
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On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 07:14:12PM -0500, Ben Story wrote:
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> 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
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