[gentoo-user] IP Masquerading hardware, crossover versus hub

[gentoo-user] IP Masquerading hardware, crossover versus hub

[THUFIR HAWAT]

I want a setup such as at
<http://www.fs-security.com/docs/pics/complexnat.png> and am reading
<http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO/index.html> to that
end.  However, there are just two machines, the gateway and a
secondary.

There's also a diagram at
<http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO/ipmasq-background2.5.html>.

The gateway (?) is arrakis, the other machine is geidi_prime.  Arrakis
has a wireless connection, so geidi_prime needs to connect via arrakis
for the internet.

The two computers will probably be 20+feet apart.  Would it make more
sense to use a hub or crossover cable?


thanks,

Thufir
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Re: [gentoo-user] IP Masquerading hardware, crossover versus hub

[Lord Sauron]

On 8/9/06, THUFIR HAWAT <hawat.thufir@gmail.com> wrote:
> I want a setup such as at
> <http://www.fs-security.com/docs/pics/complexnat.png> and am reading
> <http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO/index.html> to that
> end.  However, there are just two machines, the gateway and a
> secondary.
>
> There's also a diagram at
> <http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO/ipmasq-background2.5.html>.
>
> The gateway (?) is arrakis, the other machine is geidi_prime.  Arrakis
> has a wireless connection, so geidi_prime needs to connect via arrakis
> for the internet.
>
> The two computers will probably be 20+feet apart.  Would it make more
> sense to use a hub or crossover cable?

Yes, use a hub.  Then when Caladan, Ix, Draconus_IV, Salusa_Secundus,
and finally Tleiax enter your network, they too can be connected to
the Spacing Guild as well. ; )

Then, if you want various transient satellites (wireless laptops,
perhaps) to use wireless, then I'd have a cable from the hub to a
wireless hub.  Try to keep that wireless access point secured though.
It might be better to keep a firewall in between the wireless access
point and the rest of your network just to keep things secure.  A
hardware firewall, of course.  I don't place much faith in software
ones.  But that's your decision.  I just said how I'd build a network
given that objective of setup.

Hope you find something that works!

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Re: [gentoo-user] IP Masquerading hardware, crossover versus hub

[THUFIR HAWAT]

On 8/9/06, Lord Sauron <lordsauronthegreat@gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
> Yes, use a hub.  Then when Caladan, Ix, Draconus_IV, Salusa_Secundus,
> and finally Tleiax enter your network, they too can be connected to
> the Spacing Guild as well. ; )
[...]

Thanks for completing the picture :)

arrakis connects wirelessly to the 802.11b router.  The router belongs
to a neighbor, with whom I, and another party, share the connection.

I like that of the two replies, one was "hub" and one was "no hub" :)



-Thufir
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Re: [gentoo-user] IP Masquerading hardware, crossover versus hub

[Iain Buchanan]

On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 03:08 +0100, THUFIR HAWAT wrote:

> I like that of the two replies, one was "hub" and one was "no hub" :)

Go not to gentoo-user for council, for they will say both hub and no
hub.

;)
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Indifference will certainly be the downfall of mankind, but who cares?

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Re: [gentoo-user] IP Masquerading hardware, crossover versus hub

[Jure Varlec]

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On Thursday 10 August 2006 05:22, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> Go not to gentoo-user for council, for they will say both hub and no
> hub.

I say switch :P

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Re: [gentoo-user] IP Masquerading hardware, crossover versus hub

[Paulo Roberto Candido dos Santos]

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This is obligatory,,,

I named the servers of my company after Dune's Great Houses ... but I'm
geting out of names :(

There is harkonnen, corrino, atreides, richese, vernius and even ordos. I'm
escaping the pattern using names as "fremen" and "omnius".

On 8/10/06, Jure Varlec <exzombie@exzombie.homeip.net> wrote:
>
> On Thursday 10 August 2006 05:22, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> > Go not to gentoo-user for council, for they will say both hub and no
> > hub.
>
> I say switch :P
>
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> Jure Varlec
>
>
>

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