[NTLUG:Discuss] Sanity check on running a linux box as a router

[Jay Urish]

At 03:43 PM 08/14/1999 , you wrote:
>I am thinking of just setting up a linux box as a router than get a
>device from Netgear, Ascend, Cisco, etc.  What I need a sanity check on
>is this:  If I do run a linux box as a router, don't I need two NICs -
>one for incoming/outgoing traffic (WAN side) and then one for the routed
>traffic (LAN side) of the box.

Yes,
You need to nics.
But why? Are you wanting to do some firewalling?
You could just get a cisco 80x (for isdn) and set up filters.






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