dsl and the confusedness the howto brings about various protocols

[Brent Harding]

I thought nobody outside can access the 192.168.whatever addresses anyways.
Why bother using dhcp on the local subnet as there's more addresses under
192.168 than most people will ever use.
At 02:45 AM 9/11/00 -0400, you wrote:
>One thing for anyone who wants to know.  Sorry to confuse this thread
>more.  Geoff made the statement that you would need two nic's to create a
>gateway.  Others have eluded to this also.  This is not needed.  Unless
>you are going to be using dhcp on the local subnet you can just use one
>card to do this job.  You would use the ip aliasing support in the kernel
>to give two addresses to one interface.  I am sure who ever would be doing
>this gateway project would get the rest.  Not the best solution for some
>people but hey it works.  Not very secure either.
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>FC
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