[plug] adsl trouble

[Paul Dean]

Hya,

On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Craig Ringer wrote:

> >>>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.
Ok, but you still have the issue of 2 nics running...yes?
If this is true then are they running on the same network or different
networks?
If on the same network then it must have alot of traffic flowing through
it for the machine to need two nics.
If not, then the principle is the exactly the same same an internal
external gateway setup. The box becomes a router for traffic between two
networks therefore a gateway.
As is have read that there an ADSL modem connected to one of the nics
then it would be safe to say that the machine is acting 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.
> 
> 
But unless some information has been held back from what I have read,
then I apologize for any confusion I may have caused.

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