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Re: iptables-save/restore with dynamic IP



On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 03:41:30PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Martin G.H. Minkler <dukeofnukem@gmx.net> [2004.10.21.1532 +0200]:
>
> > setups in which a LAN and a gateway with just one NIC were sharing a 
> 
> What's a gateway with just one NIC?
> 
The only time I've seen this done has been with PPPoE; the gateway
talked PPPoE with the remote end, and communicated with the LAN via the 
same NIC. Not that secure, but got the network running.

The network's owner then went and bought another NIC for the PPPoE 
interface at a later date.

-- 
Simon



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