2011-11-03, 01:45 PM
Quote:okay.. I was thinking that your ISP box *could* plug directly into port 1 and have NIC1 on port 2.
You then have your IP-facing IP address (11.22.33.44 or so) on eth0 and your private IP (192.168.1.2) on eth0:1.
Any machines plugged into port 3 & 4 on your switch will need to obtain a 192.168.1 IP and be told that 192.168.1.2 (your machine) is the proxy.
However, this is a somewhat dangerous setup because it will have *all* machines potentially internet-facing, and one wrong IP change could expose something unprotected.
Is there a firewall on the ISP box ?
I could try it but then I don't understand how I would have internet?
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Do you mean that because my isp box is connected to port 1 and my NIC to port 2. In order to get internet
port 3 and 4 would have to go through port 2 first which is (x.x.x.x and 192.168.1.2) Also being my proxy?
nic:ip1 talking to port 1(connected to internet) and nicip2 talking to port 3 and 4 on my router?
But wouldn't this be much easier by just adding a second network card in my pc?
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