For any multihoming configuration you need to know which NIC is which. If the
NIC are on different networks (which is almost always the case with a firewall)
you need to be able to specify which NIC gets which IP address.
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Juan Sanchez wrote:
> If I wanted to set up a firewall between the internet and a local network using ip
> masquerading. I think masquerading rules are based on the name of the interface.
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> > Just curious why you care which one ends up eth0?
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