Re: Wan/Lan problem

[Mike McClain <mike.junk.46@copper.net>]

On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 08:50:15AM -0400, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 29, 2017 03:17:37 AM David Christensen wrote:
> > On 03/28/2017 04:46 PM, Mike McClain wrote:
<snip>
> > >      phone        eth0         eth1
> > >
> > > AT&T-------|   |--------|   |--------|   |-------|   |
> > >
> > >         AT&T modem/     Linux         my         Win2K
> > >
> > >             router       box         router       box
>
<snip>
> Put your router immediately after the AT&T modem, then (assuming there are
> multiple ethernet ports on the router), put your Linux box on one eth port and
> the Windows box on another.  (That would require 3 ports on the router.)
<snip>

The problem I have with your solution is that the Win2K box is not
behind the firewall I have running on the Linux box.

Thank you for your thoughts.
Mike
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