> something (gimme a break, I get lots of mail). I thought we were talking
> about setting up a gateway machine between the portmaster ether subnet
> and the subnets for the assigned addresses. Thus, if that gateway bites
> it because somebody forgot to install the ping-patch and some 10 year old
> decides to reboot your machine, none of your dial-up users will get any
> traffic thru.
Oh...you mean actually throw a second ethernet card in the web server and
put the portmasters off in another ether segment. That's not necessarily
a bad idea, but I'd use a dedicated router (or router system)...not the
web server. We have a 4 ethernet card Linux box that does nothing but
route.
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