On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Josh Trutwin wrote: > Ah, after being on a static network for so long I forgot all about dhcp. > :) Heh! Lucky guy. > Actually the LAST thing I want to do is throw an IIS box in front of my > firewall. Well, true enough. > I had thought of the above solution as a last resort if I couldn't > connect Cable Modem to Debian box. Are you saying "Nooo!" just because > it's a useless extra hop, or is it the NAT that so disturbs you. :) Extra NAT in front of the Linux box. Means that protocols that aren't NAT friendly won't work nicely, and you may run into weird little connectivity problems. A lot of times those boxes will only forward TCP, ICMP, and UDP traffic - "huh, there are other protocols?" I don't mind NAT, I just like being in control of the box doing the NAT. :) -- Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list