Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (261 mails)

[Dana Hudes <dhudes@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

bridging is not the solution. That doesn't accomplish anything for you.
You want to use NAT.
without bothering your isp etc. just have a public ip on the dsl router 
Ethernet, another on the 'external' interface of your 2-Ethernet PC
and on the interal one you use a private network (everyone seems
enamored of 192.168.0.0/16 but you could use 10/8 if you like)

On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Guido Tschakert wrote:

> Philipp Rusch wrote:
> > Hi Guido,
> > 
> > what are you trying to accomplish ?
> > What's the problem you are trying to solve, that really needs a bridge?
> > Is this SNA-traffic or Novell IPX or what else ?
> > 
> Hi Philip, hi all,
> 
> first thank you for your links, I will follow them in the next days.
> 
> The "problem" I try to solve, is that this box shouldn't be a router, 
> because I haven't got enough ip-numbers. Sure, I could do some things 
> like port or adress forwarding. But I thought of a bridge which is 
> "invisible" and can be put between the dsl router and the network like a 
> thick cable, so I don't have to change anything on the boxes in the 
> network :-)
> 
> First I thought of freebsd, but as I found that bridging is compiled in 
> the suse kernel (modul) I want to try it with suse (also 'cause I'm more 
> familiar with (suse) linux then free bsd)
> 
> guido
> 
>