DSL Routers & Servers

[mcmanus at ducksong.com (Patrick R. McManus)]

for your purposes I'd recommend just adding the second IP to the
existing interface.

(e.g. ifconfig eth0:0 192.168.16.200)





[Drew Taylor: Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 10:54:43AM -0500]
> Hi all,
> 
> I have DSL service w/ 2 static IP addresses. Right now I'm only using the 
> first, via DSL Modem <-> Linksys router <-> Linux server and using port 
> forwarding to get things where I want. This works great. But I also have a 
> second IP address I'd like to use for some business stuff. So my question 
> is, does anyone have experience w/ a Linksys (or other home router I guess) 
> and multiple IP addresses? Should I even bother? Should I dump the Linksys 
> and go w/ a linux/openbsd firewall to give me more flexibility?
> 
> Right now I'm using named virtual hosts on 1 IP to separate multiple 
> services on a single server. But my thinking was that it would be cleaner 
> if I could use the 2nd NIC on the dual port card and have it listen on 
> another IP. Any experience doing this sort of thing? I've gotten the home 
> network setup ok, but I'm not a networking guru. It doesn't need to scale 
> beyond this level. Thanks for any ideas.
> 
> Drew
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