Battle Of The Iethernet Cards

Luke Davis ldavis at shellworld.net
Sat Nov 1 01:54:13 EST 2003


Maybe have the (or another, much smaller) Linux box, take the place of the
routers?

On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Rejean Proulx wrote:

> I can only set up a lease for 1 day, which I was doing, but it occasionally
> messed me up.  I need to figure out some sort of VPN that will let my other
> machines access the Linux box through the modems.  I wish I could get rid of
> a modem, but I can't.  Maybe I'll look at other routers but not just yet.
>
>  Rejean Proulx
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Luke Davis" <ldavis at shellworld.net>
> To: "Rejean Proulx" <rejean at interfree.ca>; "Speakup is a screen review
> system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 9:31 PM
> Subject: Re: Battle Of The Iethernet Cards
>
>
> > You should do that anyway (statics for the net boxes).
> > However, a MAC-spesific lease, should be as good as a static IP, if your
> > router can do that.
> >
> > On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Rejean Proulx wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks, this is good.  That should take care of the ability to force
> them to
> > > use a specific card.  Now I need to stop it from changing IP's all the
> time.
> > > Windows was friendly that way.  If the previous IP was available it
> would
> > > use it.  Linux is unpredictable.  I think I'll have to go to static IP
> rout
> > > on the card that is used for the internet.  I might keep my 2 subnets a
> > > little longer. Lets see if this works.  I hope so.
> > >
> > >  Rejean Proulx
> > > Visit my family at http://interfree.ca
> > > MSN is: rejp at rogers.com
> > > Ham License VA3REJ
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow at gmx.net>
> > > To: "Rejean Proulx" <rejean at interfree.ca>; "Speakup is a screen review
> > > system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > > Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 2:48 PM
> > > Subject: Re: Battle Of The Iethernet Cards
> > >
> > >
> > > > You should set a listen directive in your httpd.conf file and relitave
> > > > directive in your exim.conf file.
> > > > for apache this should look like listen 192.168.0.1 replacing the ip
> > > > with that of the interface you want apache to use.
> > > > On Fri, Oct 31, 2003
> > > > at 11:49:36AM -0500, Rejean Proulx wrote:
> > > > > I have 2 Lan cards in my Linux machine.  each card is connected to a
> > > subnet
> > > > > that has a high speed modem.  Apache and Exim seems to share these 2
> > > network
> > > > > cards.  I want to tell my machine that I only want Wan or external
> > > > > communications to go through one of the cards.  The other card is
> for
> > > local
> > > > > file sharing only, at least as far as Linux is concerned.  The other
> > > high
> > > > > speed modem is for the Windows machines.  How do I do this?  For
> now, I
> > > had
> > > > > to disconnect a card, so now I can't get at Linux using Samba with
> half
> > > my
> > > > > network.  I need to control the fact that although I have 2 modems,
> I
> > > only
> > > > > want Linux to use one of them.
> > > > >
> > > > >  Rejean Proulx
> > > > > Visit my family at http://interfree.ca
> > > > > MSN is: rejp at rogers.com
> > > > > Ham License VA3REJ
> > > > >
> > > > >
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