Re: daisy-chaining internet connectivity

[robsims@robsims.com (Rob Sims)]

On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 01:30:30AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> * Configure the second wired network card with a static IP address.
>   Use a different subnet than you have on our WAN side.  That is, if
>   you have a 10.* address use 192.168.1.1 on the LAN.  If your outside
>   address is already 192.168.* then use 10.0.0.1 on your LAN side.
>   Just make sure they are different.

When using this setup, the router box (with both WAN and LAN interfaces)
must be set up to do Network Address Translation for the wired network.
iptables can be used for this.

> * Install and configure DHCP for your LAN interface.  This is probably
>   the most complicated part of the problem.  But not overly so.

Or use static IPs in /etc/networking/interfaces.
-- 
Rob