Virtual Networking

[Darrin Chandler]

On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 11:23:20PM -0500, Michael Vanecek wrote:
> Everything goes via my gateway firewall system - 2 nics - one internal 
> with static IP and serving my internal network, and the other nic 
> connected to the DSL modem - dhcp. The one connected to the DSL modem is 
> filtered heavily - I don't trust the modem security. So, essentially, 
> I'm creating yet another internal network isolated from the other, but 
> still able to use the gateway to get on the internet. Was hoping I could 
> do this virtually - I ran out of PCI slots for yet another NIC, 
> methinks. Will have to see if I can pull something out or hook up a USB 
> lan adapter and another switch...

Yes, you should be able to do this virtually. The best thing is that you
can try it without a screwdriver. Just alias a second address w/
different subnet. Routing for the subnet should happen automatically.
You may have to make the default route work right, and other machines on
that subnet will need to know the gateway machine. But it sounds like
you can manage all that...

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