From: "Mike Lieberman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 10:03:30 -0600
Neither plan is good. Please remember that cable modems are broadcast
networks. Your ISP, @Home, uses that Class A as subnetted Class C's for
good
reason. If @Home is unwilling to assign you two addresses in the same
subnet (I assume you asked, right?) there are a number of two to deal with
this.
Option 1: Two NIC's.
Add a second NIC in each computer and assign a ambiguous (private) IP
network. The classic is 10.0.0.0. Look at RFC
ftp://ftp.internic.net/policy/rfc1597.txt
Option 2: Set one box up as a Proxy Server
That box gets two NIC's, the other one. You use ONE IP address. Your ISP
sees only one computer. Use the private IP behind the firewall.
Well, yeah, I too know what The Right Thing is. Unfortunately the machine
that has to be the gateway/proxy server switches randomly between Linux and
Windows throughout the day for a variety of reasons. Yes, I know about
WinGate, but the whole thing would be such a horrific kludge that I refuse
even to contemplate it. If/when I get a new box (maybe an old Sparc from
work) I can set it up as a dedicated gateway and then my problems would be
over (er.. this particular set of problems, that is).
Kaa
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