on 22/11/99 5:14 PM, also sprach Morse:
> I am setting up a 486 RH 6.1 to act as a gateway for my cable modem.
> With a NT box I need to use two NICs ...one for the LAN and one for the
> Cable modem and then use a proxy server.
> But with Linux it is not a proxy...but a simple gateway address...
>
> Ok then do I need two NICs in the Linux box ...one for the modem and one
> for the LAN ?
> Or is there someway that I can just have one NIC for the LAN and plug the
> cable modem into the hub without purchasing separate IP addresses for the
> clients.
While I can't give you all of the details, you should be able to assign two
IPs to one card (IP Aliaising/Multi-Homing) and route between them. So if
you assign w.x.y.z to the interface that goes to your cable modem (because
the cable company told you to), you can also assign 192.168.1.1 to the same
interface.
I haven't used IP_Masq enough to know if it will work with this set up, but
if it does, your clients talk to 192.168.1.1, and get masqueraded to
w.x.y.z. All of your clients get a 192.168.1.x address.
Make sense? I'm sure someone will correct me if IP_Masq will hate this
configuration.
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