From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cpe-144-136-157-34.qld.bigpond.net.au ([144.136.157.34] helo=data.home ident=mail) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1AG7nh-0005FQ-00 for ; Sat, 01 Nov 2003 21:17:09 -0500 Received: from geoff (helo=localhost) by data.home with local-esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 1AG7nc-0002gk-00 for ; Sun, 02 Nov 2003 12:17:04 +1000 Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 12:17:04 +1000 (EST) From: Geoff Shang To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: RFC on solution to Rejean's situation X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.3 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2003 02:17:09 -0000 On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, Luke Davis wrote: > 7. The current configuration is this: > The network of switched Windows boxes, go through the DSL router. > The Linux box goes through a router, which connects to the cable modem. > The Linux box, has a second card, which links it to the Windows network. > This is not ideal. What I would do is ditch the second router and run the Linux box direct to the cable modem. Then I'd just set up the route for the second ethernet card in such a way so that it only talks to the internal LAN and not the internet through the DSL connection. Surely an additional Linux box with 4 network cards is making things more complicated, not less. Geoff.