I'm not sure I understand your question, but what if you use a
Linksys BEFSR41 router as your firewall? Then connect the
various computers to the router. Will that work? (I'm not
into any computer games outside of the occasional solitaire or
Windows Pinball (really well done, I think!)) But I do have the
router, and you can set it up to stealth (hide) your computer
completely! (You need the latest software from the net.)
And it's easy. Even I can do it! --doug, wa2say
At 10:09 10/16/2000 -0700, someone wrote:
>Hoping for some help here:
>
>I previously had the following setup within my network at my residence. 1
>Linux box w/ 2 NIC cards. 1 connected to the DSL modem, and 1 to a HUB
>where other computers throughout the house are connected. I configured NIC
>1 for the IP address given to me by my DSL provider, and configured the
>other NIC for the private network IP range 196.168.x.x. Next I configured
>IP Forwarding and Masquerading, and alas had everything set up and working
>perfectly.
>
>Some online games won't allow duplicate IP addresses to be seen on the game
>server, and as all computers within my private net were sharing the 1 IP
>address provided by the DSL provider, only one computer at a time to could
>be gaming. I've recently acquired a different DSL package, which gives me 5
>static IP address, so I should be able to configure my network as I hoped.
>
>Obviously, I could have just put all computers, and the DSL modem on my HUB
>and life would be good from a gaming perspective, however, I would very much
>like to have a firewall installed that helps protect against intruders.
>Under this scenario, I'd have to install a firewall on each PC to gain some
>protection...what a hassle.
>
>What I'd like to do is configure my Linux box like I had before, but replace
>the Private network with additional IP's that I gained. I tried setting
>this up, but fell short after realizing that Linux acting as a router can't
>route unless there are two different networks (IP sets) to route between.
>Since all my machines IP's belong to the same network (IP set), I can't
>"route" per se.
>
>What I came across were some HOWTO's on bridging+firewall. Essentially the
>bridge creates a virtual NIC that binds the two together, and I place the
>firewall (IPchains) on this virtual NIC. I configured it, set it up, and
>appear to be accomplishing my goal. The firewall stuff is working on every
>machine, and of course gaming is now a reality.
>
>In summary, my question is this. Is this the best/only approach I can take
>in setting up my environment? Is there a way to accomplish this by setting
>up my own route tables? The reason I ask is because when everything is
>"idle" on my network, I see blips on the DSL modem about every 3 seconds or
>so. I've narrowed it down to the bridge stuff, as I can bring the bridge
>down, and the blipping stops. I don't know what is happening, and I don't
>believe that the bridge is impacting performance much, still I don't know,
>so I thought I'd pose the question to the experts out there.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Mark Wignall
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
