Re: network topology question

2002-02-20 Thread dman
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 12:45:57AM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: | According to my ADSL service provider, my connection to their gateway | is somehow "private", This is mostly marketing-speak and quite meaningless. They are comparing their service with that of cable modems. Cable modems use some

Re: network topology question

2002-02-20 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 12:45:57AM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > I have this setup at home. The box with the public IP has a firewall. > According to my ADSL service provider, my connection to their gateway > is somehow "private", but I haven't really tested with tcpdump if all > incomming packets a

Re: network topology question

2002-02-20 Thread Hans Ekbrand
here? /Hans > Mike > > -Original Message- > From: stonelx [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 9:35 PM > To: debian-user > Subject: network topology question > > Hi all, > I was wondering if anyone thinks this would be > bad networking

RE: network topology question

2002-02-20 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Mike wrote: > As an example of unintended problems, if you have DHCP setup on either > interface of the Linux box it could serve invalid addresses to other > folks at your ISP. Depends on the ISP's setup, too. @Home before they died thier undeserved death by collusion, used

RE: network topology question

2002-02-20 Thread Mike
: stonelx [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 9:35 PM To: debian-user Subject: network topology question Hi all, I was wondering if anyone thinks this would be bad networking practice: To setup a linux box with 2 nics. One with a public IP and the other with a private IP. The

Re: network topology question

2002-02-20 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, stonelx wrote: > To setup a linux box with 2 nics. > One with a public IP and the other with a private IP. > The linux box is acting as a masqurading box. (ipmasq) > However, both nics are plugged into the same switch or hub. Yes![1] If you really want to do just NAT without

network topology question

2002-02-19 Thread stonelx
Hi all, I was wondering if anyone thinks this would be bad networking practice: To setup a linux box with 2 nics. One with a public IP and the other with a private IP. The linux box is acting as a masqurading box. (ipmasq) However, both nics are plugged into the same switch or hub. Basically, you