Go to OfficeMax's web site. Download the $15 off coupon. Go to an OfficeMax and buy the cheapest hub they got. Ought to be about $49 or less. Apply the coupon. Net cost $34 + tax. Install hub and connect workstations. Have a cup of coffee. Crowbar for boss's wallet and kleenex for whining session optional. Live is too short, isn't it? I'm tired of dragging the mountain around with me. Whenever possible, I look for flat road. Rick On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Alex Shnitman wrote: > Hi, > > I have the following situation. I have my Linux box on the company > network. I also have a Windows box for which I don't have a network > port, so I connected it back-to-back to the Linux box via a second NIC > on the latter. > > Now, I need to work with the company network from the Windows > box. I'll list the ways I tried and the problems with each of them, > and perhaps you can advise how it's possible to solve the problems > using one of those ways, or maybe suggest another way altogether. > > First, I did simple NAT. I gave a different subnet to the small > network (Linux <-> Windows), and on Linux I enabled IP forwarding, and > masquerading for this subnet. I then could access the Internet from > the Windows box. However, I couldn't log on to the NT domain, because > broadcasts by the Windows box (needed for finding the PDC) weren't > forwarded. > > Next I tried bridging. I bridged the two interfaces on my Linux box, > and the Windows box got an address from the DHCP server like any other > machine. That was perfect, but there was one problem -- I access the > Windows box via VNC, and this causes all the VNC packets to go to both > interfaces and flood the company network. Also, the back-to-back > connection is 100 Mbit, and the company network is 10 Mbit, and I > suppose that bridging them makes them both 10 Mbit. Not good. > > Then I tried proxy ARP. I gave the Windows box a static IP within the > company network subnet and did arp -s etc. This came out the same as > NAT -- I could connet to the Internet, I could even ping internal > company servers, but broadcasts apparently still didn't go out. > > So the problem basically is that I want broadcasts from the Windows > box to go on the company network, but I don't want my VNC traffic to > flood it. Is it possible to achieve? Any ideas? Some sort of tunneling > perhaps? Something else? > > > - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
