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

[Derek Broughton]

Peter Simpson wrote:

> On Thursday 25 Aug 2005 14:16, Alvin Thompson wrote:
>> Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
>> > 2) later, when I actually come round to building a home network, I will
>> > buy a switch (sounds like it's sufficient from your description) and
>> > some cables...
>>
>> take my advice: for the cost of a good switch, you can buy a Linksys
>> WRT54G wireless router, which does the entire job and much more (DNS,
>> DHCP etc), is easy to set up, and is so powerful that you can run linux
>> on it as well! there are entire sites dedicated to flashing bigger and
>> badder features on this thing. and they're so cheap! these things have
>> definitely stolen the routing job from linux boxes in the last few years.
> 
> Except if you're going to run your own public internet services in which
> case you can just add another interface to get a DMZ, you could also add
> traffic shaping and a proxy.
> 
> Sometime after that you might like to install some sort of VPN (which
> still makes me think Visible Panty N....).

You can do all of that on the linksys (traffic shaping may be a little
primitive - I know you can do bandwidth limiting, I don't know what else).

> Maybe you want to just allow ssh, or run an internal email server on the
> same.....

You can definitely ssh to the router - an internal mail server _might_ be a
stretch.
-- 
derek