> From: Jeff Newmiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 02:39:41 -0800 (PST) > > On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, WS Wong wrote: > > > I am a newbie to Linux firewall. I downloaded the Dachstein image and > > installed in a P100 PC with 64MB RAM and two Linksys Ethernet cards. > > Every thing works fine connecting to a DSL modem on one end and my > > home PC on the other end of the firewall box. > > > > I have two spare 3Com 3C509B-TPO Ethernet ISA cards. I want to add > > the 3Com cards to the Linux firewall and have the one Linksys card and > > two 3Com cards working as a Hub. This way I can have a local three > > computers network that can talk to each other and share one ISP IP > > address for Internet access. > > > > Is it feasible to add the hub function into a floppy disk firewall > > box? Did anyone try this configuration before? What do I have to > > change and add to the network configuration module to add the Hub > > functions? > > Theoretically possible, if you enable bridging, but not really worth the > trouble it will take. > > Hubs and switches are too economical in their per-port cost these days to > consider using a computer instead. Really.
You can use your Firewall as a Hub or as a *Router*. This is perhaps not so much work. You must specify the ethernet cards in the config (much as the existing *internal* interfaces), they must each have there own network (192.168.0.*, 192.168.1.*, 192.168.2.* etc) and there is a little bit of magic that must be done somewhere (and I can't remeber where - anyone else?) to allow the networks to talk to each other (as the default is seperate networks). Greetings Mark _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
