Networking : how to bridge two NICs to share internet access ?

[Roland Harke]

Hi Vincent,

On Thursday 25 August 2005 02:32, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> Hi Bill,
>
> Wow, I am not sure I understand everything you said, I am getting
> lost already :-/  Do you mean, in essence, that :
>
> 1) networking is a very vast and immensely complex subject ?
... sure is
> 2) I should give up trying to feed internet access to eth1 from
> eth0 ? 3) there are cheap/consumer devices named 'routers' that can
> take care of all the problems in hardware, and let me enjoy all the
> benefits with next to zero, or only moderate, pain ?
>
> Looks like I will need one of these little things then... how much
> do they cost ? Maybe I can get a dirty cheap one on ebay ?
> 4 ports would be enough : one for my main desktop machine, one for
> another machine (project in the pipeline...) that will back-up
> daily the data from the main machine, a third port to connect a
> laptop eventually, and a free port for future extensions or I don't
> know...

The easiest likely is to install IPCOP on the server. It does the 
routing and firewalling you need, has a web-interface and does not 
require much of fiddling with parameters. Works for me; and nicely 
so.
Good luck and have fun.

Regards,
-- 
Roland.Harke at gmx.de