Yup, that's my take on it! Works enough to keep me happy!
Thank you all for the input and help!!
pete
On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 13:50, Kyle Faber wrote:
> On Monday 30 December 2002 2:24 pm, mazdaracer wrote:
> > I'm guessing here, but do you mean that I have to add the routes to the
> > Linux box? Don't know if they can be added to the D Link.
> >
>
> Yes, you'd have to devise a manual route on the Linux box that would use the
> DLink as a gateway. I've never done this because I've never needed it.
>
> > Did I mention that now I can access Apache from the laptop? This is
> > good,so we may not even have to go any further on this. As long as I can
> > go from those behind the D Link to the Linux box, I'm happy!
> >
> You should always be able to go out from behind the DLink because thats what
> the DLink is designed to do ; ) otherwise I'd take it back to Fry's.
> Getting back in is the hard part, because the DLink is designed to make it
> hard (providing at the basic NAT, maybe Firewall depending on your model) it
> would probably be very difficult to design routes back inside the DLink.
>
> Your second option may be see if you can disable NAT on the DLink, use the
> Linux box to hand out IPs (DHCP) and try to make it a one level network
> instead of the dual that you have right now.
>
> But then again, you seem happy with it now, so if it Ain't Broke(tm). . .
>
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