[ltp] 2 Computer Simple Network

[Jeff]

On Saturday 17 July 2004 04:28 pm, Matt Graham wrote:
> On Saturday 17 July 2004 11:56, after a long battle with technology,

> What do you mean "there is a WWW DSL line connecting them"?  Did you
> mean "One machine has 2 NICs, with one NIC connected to a DSL router
> and the other NIC connected to the hub"?  Also, a hub, not a switch?  I
> thought that no small hubs have been made for a few years now.  Well,
> similar principles apply.
>
> > The hub could easely be replaced with a fire wall
>
> ?  No, it couldn't.  You mean "I could do something like this:"
>
> DSL line<-->Firewall<-->Hub<-->machine 1
>                          ^\--->machine 2
>
>  ...get your terminology right.  The Networking HOWTO and Ethernet HOWTO
> on http://tldp.org/ are decent places to start.

Maybe he was referring to the 4 port NAT home router devices? Linksys and 
D-Link both made such devices. They would work like he explained.