On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Justin Slootsky wrote:

> Most people seem to be saying that you NEED two ethernet cards in your Linux
> box, one for the outside net, and one for the internal net.  I successfully 
> use one ethernet card in my Linux machine, and have a hub that connects my
> external network, and all of my local machines.  I realize that in some
> situations this is not polite (to distribute 192.168.* addresses outside my
> house) or secure, but in my situation, it appears to work.

OUCH!!  Yes, this would work but, as you say, neither polite nor secure...

Of course, if money were a major limiting factor, you could always connect
the two machines together using a null-modem cable and then nail up a PPP
connection.  It'd be dog slow, though. 


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