Bret Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Kevin Diffily wrote:
>
>> I am wondering what issues would be involved with assigning some
>> machines on a LAN public ips and some private ip addresses based upon
>> their function. Can you have both without causing problems?
>
>I suspect so but the routing might get interesting. You can have two subnets on
>the same wire by aliasing the ethernet addresses of the NICs. I don't know about
>the security issues. I would be more inclined to do a cheap DMZ using a third nic
>on the gateway. There is an ipchains howto somewhere that does a good job of
>explaining it.
>
>HTH
>
>Bret
I asked about a similar issue a while ago in a different thread, but I
didn't get much help. The upshot of my experience is that aliasing
different networks on the same NIC is problematic. So I second the
recommendation that you designate a gateway machine with a separate
NIC for each subnet.
Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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