Router Question

[George Toft]

Your comment "but I play around with it a lot" bothers me.  Since you
are using IPMasq, that implies this RH box is (or should be) a 
firewall.  What are you doing on your firewall?  You should leave it 
alone - it should serve those other five employees.  For that matter,
make it the firewall for the whole company.

I really hope you're not using it as a work station.  If so, go
here: http://www.retrobox.com/rbwww/home/ and buy one of the $15 Dell
Pentiums, put in two $15 NICs from Fry's and use it as a router - it'll
cost you half as much as that other thing.

More than just my $0.02.

George


Tyler Hall wrote:
> 
> Greetings;
> 
> I have a question about a router.  I'm looking to buy one for our work
> connection, but is a little worried.   Right now We have 5 ips, 4 of them
> are used for the higher end employees (president, vice president, etc) and
> the other 5 computers are on fake ips.  I'm running Redhat doing
> masquerating to masqerade those other 5 computers, but I play around with it
> a lot so it's not the most stable thing on this planet.  So I thought to
> myself, Hey I'll just go buy a d-link router for $85.   But, I'm running
> into these problems.    It has 2 ports, a remote port and a local port.   Do
> I need both of them plugged in?  It says, put the modem in the local port (i
> believe) and plug the other thing into the hub.
> 
> Well...      right now, the modem is going straight to the uplink of the
> hub, and then everyone uses it from there.    It also says, that you can
> plug one end into the hub and one end into the computer?  I could do that,
> but then does that mean the computer has to be on 24/7 for the router to
> work?  That wouldnt solve my problem, I want a 24/7 deciated connection!
> 
> So, I'm thinking.    Could I take both remote and local ports, and plug them
> both into the hub?  Or does one have to be to the  modem?
> 
> If I have to plug one into the modem, and one into the hub, will it affect
> the real ips at all?   Like, if the router is down, it's going to stop the
> flow of the connection to the hub, eh?   Also, if I make some routing rules
> on the router, is it going to use those routing rules on the real ips as
> well?  Even though the real ips dont use the router gateway, they use the
> modem gateway?   I'm stuck folks, I've looked over the net and can't find
> crap.  So, I came to plug! :>
> 
> -
> Tyler Hall
> http://www.nerdie.org
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