external router [was: Re: getting networking to work]

[Andrew Hurt <ahurt@starpower.net>]

On 12/18/02 16:12, Adam Majer wrote:
> :) With Linux you don't even need a router or most of the other
> things. The only thing that is useful on a "normal" network
> with "linux-aware admins" are switches and hubs. Linux can do all
> the routing (hence the routing tables in Linux), NAT, 
> bandwidth managment (qdisc stuff here) and much much more.
> Frankly, a router in all but some extraordinary situations
> is useless - well, my opinion at least :)

Definately proven, in application ;-)

But I was thinking that there are some benefits:  blocking, obfuscation, 
filtering, etc.  And the fact I could hook another machine to it so access could 
be shared.

I don't know very much, yet--not even to the stage of using iptables, etc.  Time 
be time, I guess ;-)

--
andrew