--- David Talkington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > nit etc wrote: > > >> The real question is, why? What are you trying > to > >> accomplish? > > > >Because NAT cannot deal with all protocols. > Sometimes, > >my wife wants to use Netmeeting on her laptop. Yes, > I > >know theres a kernel patch available to support the > >H.x protocol, but its buggy. > > > >Anyhow, I'd like to know if there is a solution to > my > >question, regardless of how good a idea it is. > > Ok, fair enough. Since you have a good reason to > NAT-not, you're > stuck with only two possible nodes anyway, so why > not just use > individual firewalls on the workstations? Yes, I > know, I prefer to > have something in front of a Winbox if possible, but > the alternative > is probably dhcrelay (see the man page for it). > Trouble is, even if > it works, you'd need two more IP addresses, one > inside and one out, on > the gateway. I've never gone down that road, myself > ... > I have another laptop from work that I use at home sometimes, and I'd hate to firewall and administer all my machines.
After putting more thought to this, I realized that if my Linux box were to act as a 'real' gateway, since that is what I want it to do, I'd need to set both my NICs on the Linux box to real IP addresses, but since Verizon does DHCP I dont know if I could set my second NIC(internal network) to obtain a real IP from Verizon, since a DHCP request is only sent out on the line that the NIC is connected to... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
