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
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 06:24:27PM -0500, Mike wrote: > It breaks all kinds of rules concerning security and clean network > design, but it should work. > > As an example of unintended problems, if you have DHCP setup on either > interface of the Linux box it could serve invalid addresses to oth

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
It breaks all kinds of rules concerning security and clean network design, but it should work. 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. Mike -Original Message- From: st

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