Re: [LI] leased line and linux

[Syed Khader Vali <sidcarter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

=> some of the suggestions i got from friends were to assign a private ip
=> to the router ie 192.169.0.1 then point in all the nodes this ip as the
=> gateway , i am unable to figure out who is going to take care of the
=> routing table do i have to do some modifcations on the router or the
=> linux box will forward the traffic to the world.
=> 
=> Linux box with two network cards acting as a router to do the job of
=> router as well as proxy server. This is ruled out since we have a
=> router,
=> then also i am free to experiment.
Hello there,
Well, I would say why do you need a router when you already have linux
which can act as a much better router ( ipchains and forthcoming netfilter).
And since you want two IP's on the same ethernet, you could try out
IP-Aliasing where you can have two different subnets and lotsaa different
IP's. Check out the IP-Aliasing-mini-HOWTO. Of course I have seen that
IP-Aliasing has some problems when you have a switch. Well, I had some
problems when I did the same.

But as alwaya I maybe wrong. ;-)

Happy Linuxing.........

Regards
	Khader

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