Many thanks to those of you who gave valuable answers, especially Ray, Kim and Phillip.
I'm currently running Dachstein, because I don't think the default Bering dist will run on my 486CPU (2.4 kernel?) Someone correct me if I'm wrong. So that leaves me using Seattle Firewall as my firewall software. I havn't figgered out how to put additional lrp's on my boot floppy. I may detour long enuff to boot off of one of the little IDE hard drives in the box. 1) The NetGear FA311 uses the NatSemi.O module. The only wierdness I see is that the MAC address returned by the ip command do not match those the NetGear DIAG software reports. 2) All 4 cards are now recognized by the O/S and are ping-able. IRQ's and I/O's looks good 3) The card connected to the Cable modem fired out a DHCP request, and properly implemented the returned address/gateway/DNS infoprmation. 4) The card connected to the internall net is answering DHCP requests and assigning addresses in the correct range. (192.168.2.1--199) 5)No firewall rules appear to be set up yet (ipchains reports all ACCEPT and no rules) 6) I can't (yet) ping from inside MASQ'd net to outside world. This is my next chore. Will this version accept the firewall rules set I have running on my older IPCHAINS box? Thanks again. When I get ready to drop multiple IP's on each ethernet port (OLD dedicated IP's need to be replaced with new dedicated IP's, and some are main DNS servers), I expect things to get wierd again, and I may holler here.... So much power on a floppy. The only REALLY SCARY time was before my first cup of coffee this morning when I had to boot my main development (WINDOWS) box, cause of a stupid vanishing mouse pointer... Up popped Dachstein, and it completely booted into firewall mode. No errors. No floppy in the drive. I thought all 40 gigs of code/ apps/ docs was GONE! Then I found the CD I burned yesterday still in the CD/R/W drive...(WHEW) what a rush! harold -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by NW.NET's MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Two, two, TWO treats in one. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
