[plug] Installfest

[Chris Darby]

this is just incase someone needs a real IP for a specific purpose

-----Original Message-----
From: The Thought Assassin [mailto:assassin at live.wasp.net.au]
Sent: Friday, 25 August 2000 11:27 AM
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
Subject: RE: [plug] Installfest


On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Chris Darby wrote:
> all the machines that will have real IPs will just have to manually
> assign their network cards the respective IP and then use my machine as
> the gateway.
Is it necessraily a good idea to give the machines real IPs? I am sure
that every distribution's install process has race conditions that can be
remotely exploited. I think it would be wiser to just run a proxy and NAT
them as required..

-Greg Mildenhall