Hi Gabriel, on Saturday, 2005-05-14 at 23:07:25, you wrote: > I'm assuming you are using 255.255.255.0 as your subnet mask. If this is > the case, I don't know how to make it work -- but it's unnecessarily > difficult. Try to set up this: > > (INTERNET) > | > [ ?.?.?.? ] > [ DSL MODEM ] > [192.168.1.254] > | > [192.168.1.96 ] > [LOCAL SERVER ] > [192.168.2.1 ] > | > [192.168.2.97 ] > [ HOME BOX ]
Right, tat would make more sense. However, with a PPPoE link it's not even
necessary to use two NICs, For quite a while I had my system set up with one
central SOHO switch feeding my server, my laptop, my wife's computer and the DSL
modem. The other NIC in the server was exclusively for WLAN. Due to the PPPoE
you have a virtual P2P link between the server and the modem that cannot
interfere with the rest of your network. A packet from the net that is meant
for, say, my laptop goes into the modem, out to the switch, from there, still
PPPoE encapsulated, into the server (via eth0) which strips it of the PPPoE
headers and passes it to pppd. Then it will appear on the virtual ppp0
interface, get routed as a regular ethernet packet back to eth0, out to the
switch and to the laptop. On a 100Mbps ethernet the internet traffic going twice
over the same cable isn't even noticeable.
cheers!
Matthias
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