Re: [Sheflug] Blueyonder

["Chris J" <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

And Lo! The Great Prophet " Darrell Blake" uttered these words of wisdom...
> Also, my  current network runs on BNC cable so will it be possible to
> connect the RJ45  to the smoothwall and then still run the rest of the
> connection on BNC? I  highly doubt this is possible. I guess what I'm
> asking is, will I need to  have two networks and bridge them? In which
> case I'll need two NIC cards in  my smoothwall box. Once from internet to
> RJ45 on one card. Then other card  handles BNC connections. Is this right?

<disclaimer>I don't know smoothwall, so generic info follows</disclaimer>

In your smoothwall box, you need two network cards - one internet facing,
one internal facing. The external facing card should have a 10BaseT port for
connection (with straight-through UTP) to the cable modem. The
internal-facing card can still use BNC.

You will then need to set up the box to bridge or route between the two
cards. For the three internal machines to access the internet through your
gateway, you'll need to set up NAT (aka masquarading).

Then you need to worry about the firewall... :) I know Smoothwall is pretty
much meant to "simplify" the entire process, but I don't know what bells,
whistles and flashing lights it comes with.

Running the whole lot off one card is pretty much doomed to fail :)

Chris...

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