[ale] two connections to internet??

[hirsch at zapmedia.com]

Gary MacKay writes:
 > Fantastic idea! My only problem is that I'm OK at routing, but far from
 > an expert. I'm not sure how to do it so that ONLY email goes in/out the
 > DSL card and everything else uses the cable modem. My goal is that all
 > the workstation traffic uses the cable modem. The _only_ reason I have
 > DSL is for the static IP for the email/web server.

Why not send all outgoing traffic out the cable modem since the only
point of the DSL is for incoming traffic.  There is no rule that
traffic has to go back the way it came in.

So all you need to do is configure the DSL NIC to have the proper IP,
then route everything out the cable NIC.  

--Michael

 > 
 > 
 > Leonard Thornton wrote:
 > > 
 > > Wht not build a single firewall with 3 Ethernet cards? (2 external
 > > connection and 1 internal connection)  Setup you DSL as a primary route
 > > and the cable as secondary in your routing entries.  Use NAT and
 > > prtforwarding to route traffic to your mail / web / ftp servers on the
 > > internal network from the outside world.
 > > 
 > > Gary MacKay wrote:
 > > 
 > > > Ok, here's a weird question for you. I had RoadRunner service and
 > > > recently installed a DSL line so I could have a dedicated IP. (Yes, I'm
 > > > aware of dyndns.org, but choose not to for now.) Currenly my firewall
 > > > box is connected to the DSL and my cable modem is sitting here mocking
 > > > me with it's little blinking lights. It was way faster than this DSL,
 > > > and I just can't bring myself to shut if off. My question is, can I have
 > > > both? :) Something like this?
 > > >
 > > >
 > > >                      Internet             Internet
 > > >                          |                    |
 > > >                      firewall 1           firewall 2
 > > >                          |                    |
 > > >                          +------- hub --------+
 > > >                                    |
 > > >                                   / \
 > > >                               mail   workstation(s)
 > > >                               srvr
 > > >
 > > > I envision just setting the gateway address of my workstion(s) to
 > > > firewall-2 so I can enjoy the fast connection for every day browsing,
 > > > but the email/web server will use firewall-1 as it's gateway so the
 > > > fixed IP will work for it. Will it work? An added benefit would be if
 > > > one goes down, I could switch the gateway addr and keep browsing!
 > > >
 > > > I realize I could split them apart as two seperate networks, but then my
 > > > workstations would have to go out the cable modem and back in the DSL
 > > > line to check email. Seems kind of wierd when the boxes sit about four
 > > > inches apart!!
 > > >
 > > > - Gary
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 > > >
 > > 
 > > --
 > > The difficult while you wait...the impossible overnight.
 > > 
 > > Leonard Thornton
 > > Intelis, Inc
 > > leonard at intelis-inc.net



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