Re: Can one keep networks apart on a machine?

1999-12-21 Thread Nate Duehr
On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 01:43:42PM -0600, Kent West wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I kind of like the suggestion from a previous post that this ignorant net admin of yours be brought to task over his administrative decisions. Isn't his job ultimately to provide a network

Re: Can one keep networks apart on a machine?

1999-12-21 Thread Onno
I kind of like the suggestion from a previous post that this ignorant net admin of yours be brought to task over his administrative decisions. Isn't his job ultimately to provide a network infrastructure that makes end-users more productive? Seems to me that his draconic nothing but NT stance

Re: Can one keep networks apart on a machine?

1999-12-20 Thread Onno
At 09:27 AM 12/19/99 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a dilemma at work. They use Windoze (NT at the moment) and will not allow me to use Linux instead. Yet Linux is my choice both personally and professionally (given the tools my discipline has which run under the two environments, Linux

Re: Can one keep networks apart on a machine?

1999-12-20 Thread Marc Mongeon
How about a second NIC in the Windows machine, with a cross-over cable to the NIC in the Linux machine? Or PPP over a serial cable? You might have some trouble convincing the Windows machine that you can establish a PPP connection without dialing a phone number; the two services seem pretty

Re: Can one keep networks apart on a machine?

1999-12-20 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 12/19/99 at 11:56 AM, Dave Sherohman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Would it be acceptable to just set up the Linux box with a static route pointing at your NT box and no default route? This would prevent it from talking to any other machines

Re: Can one keep networks apart on a machine?

1999-12-20 Thread Marc Mongeon
You shouldn't have any problem doing per-adapter setup under NT. The biggest issue I can think of is routing, since NT wants to do all of that automatically, but I think with appropriate choice of IP address and netmask, you can make it work OK. I kind of like the suggestion from a previous post

Re: Can one keep networks apart on a machine?

1999-12-20 Thread kaynjay
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 12/20/99 at 10:38 AM, Marc Mongeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: You shouldn't have any problem doing per-adapter setup under NT. The biggest issue I can think of is routing, since NT wants to do all of that automatically, but I think with appropriate choice of IP address

Re: Can one keep networks apart on a machine?

1999-12-20 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I kind of like the suggestion from a previous post that this ignorant net admin of yours be brought to task over his administrative decisions. Isn't his job ultimately to provide a network infrastructure that makes end-users more productive? Seems to me that

Can one keep networks apart on a machine?

1999-12-19 Thread kaynjay
I have a dilemma at work. They use Windoze (NT at the moment) and will not allow me to use Linux instead. Yet Linux is my choice both personally and professionally (given the tools my discipline has which run under the two environments, Linux is a born winner). I Am allowed to use it as long as

Re: Can one keep networks apart on a machine?

1999-12-19 Thread Dave Sherohman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I have a dilemma at work. They use Windoze (NT at the moment) and will not allow me to use Linux instead. Yet Linux is my choice both personally and professionally (given the tools my discipline has which run under the two environments, Linux is a born winner). I Am

Re: Can one keep networks apart on a machine?

1999-12-19 Thread kaynjay
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 12/19/99 at 01:42 PM, Marcin Kurc [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: [...] But let's get to the point. I understand that you have Windows box and Linux box, you could install wingate on Windows box and put another network card in it. This way you could have local ip on your

Re: Can one keep networks apart on a machine?

1999-12-19 Thread kaynjay
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 12/19/99 at 11:56 AM, Dave Sherohman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Would it be acceptable to just set up the Linux box with a static route pointing at your NT box and no default route? This would prevent it from talking to any other machines even if it's physically using