[plug] adsl trouble
Craig Ringer
craig at postnewspapers.com.au
Mon Jun 17 17:28:20 WST 2002
>>>Which eth dev is internal network and which one is external?
>>
>>My impression from what's been said earlier was he's behind an
>>adsl-enabled /router/ running dhcp to assign addrs so there is in fact
>>no "internal" and "external" interface on the machine.
>
> If the box is running as an gateway
Therein lying the point - it is not running as a gateway.
> and it has 2 nics, the the
> "internal" nic is the private network and the "external" nic is the
> public network.
Typically one uses eth0 as private and eth1 as public by convention,
like with my firewall/router/traffic-shaping machine at home and a
similar one at work.
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