On Saturday 28 February 2004 00:51 am, Sid Boyce wrote:
Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
I'll second that. ICS requires a box with two ethernet cards, which in itself can be tricky to configure whether in Linux or Windows.
I've never managed to Windoze to happily cope with more than one set of network settings - 2NICs or NIC+dialup - and XP seems to be worse than 98SE.
Routers are the key to heaven these days no matter what OS you're running.
Paul Abrahams
Tricky eh? Can't see how.
Hear Hear! The only trouble I've ever encountered with dual homed (indeed tripple or more homed) hosts - and all the boxes on my LAN are at least dual homed - the only problems have been: A- a kernel module for an old isa card which couldn't cope with two identical cards (I figure it wasn't re-entrant, or fell over some other way) but ticks over happily with a diffent second NIC; and B - IRQ conflicts Both easy to deal with and hardly a network issue per se!
I've tried a few Linux firewalls and for a few years now use "BBIagent" on a Cyrix M200+/16M, no HD and 2 NIC's box, it's nothing but simple to setup via a browser.
Haven't come across that one - where is it from? Dylan -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin