- More to the point, Is it really necessary or just good practice to use a second network card when connecting to a router? The implication below is that it IS necessary.
One network card to be plugged into the Internet, one network card to be plugged into the network. I think you may be confused with specialist routers, a specialist router connects to the Internet and your network, but you don't need to put a 'second network card' into it, as it already has two. What is being written about here is setting up a PC with two network cards, the correct
Hi, Azarael Angel Of Death, (Never though I would be greeting a minor deity on the Internet! It looks like the use of SuSE is truly universal! Inter-galactic networking must bring many problems of it's own though.) I am a little confused now. 1) how could I connect to the Internet via a Network Interface Card (NIC). I would always assume Modem, ISDN terminal adapter etc. 2) I have a server and an ISDN router connected to my network, both the server and the router have single NIC. I wish to set up a local proxy server and assumed that this would 'sit' on the network via a NIC. Do I really have to isolate the network traffic, user/proxy and Proxy/router? I can see that this could have advantages, but depending upon geography and topology this could cause problems. 3) Thank you for explaining DTE, I thought it meant "Data Terminal Equipment" since we were talking about communications. Before answering great Azarael, may I remind you that to be human is to ere! or some other excuse! Kind Regards Adrian Wells protocols,
and then connecting it to network and Internet and using it as a router. DTE? *coughs* I mean, does this explain? :)
--Azrael
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