On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 15:41, Darrell Blake wrote: > Thanks for everyone's help. My actual set up (once working) will be as > follows. I will have a smoothwall box connected to the internet via the > blueyonder connection, looks like it's gonna have to be RJ45 though, then all > the other computers (all 3 of them) will use the smoothwall box as the > gateway to the internet. Can anyone tell me if this is possible? 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? There is a way of sharing the cable modem with a HUB and a single network (however since the C/M has no BNC this isn't useful / or a media-converter is needed to translate BNC to RJ45- a new NIC would be cheaper). You need an interface for the public network (telewest) and a private IP range for the internal network. My setup is a small box with 4 network cards, one for telewest, masquerading on the other three cards. Using iptables/ip routing it's possible to get something complex working. (I've never bothered buying a hub). I'm not sure if smoothwall will allow you to configure eth0:1 for public internet and eth0:2 for private internet. Network cards don't usually allow you to use RJ45/BNC at the same time, a quick search on the Internet might answer this - or just try it out. -- NAME : Adam Allen. EMAIL : adam@dynamicinteraction.co.uk COMMENT : ~~~~ insert your favourite signature comment here ~~~~ PGP : http://search.keyserver.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=adam%40dynamicinteraction.co.uk
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