There are other reasons to use two NICs. The first one would be that it is possible your ISP has their router mis-configured and would allow routed information to be sent to your subnet. It may also be possible that your local traffic is reflected elsewhere in your subnet. (This isn't too far fetched. Sure the switch is only supposed to send your traffic to you, but they are computers too and my computer has been known to exhibit strange behavior on occasion.) The upshot is that either of these situations makes your subnet appear to some potentially unfriendly people. Is the risk high? I don't think so, but it is not needed. Let us keep in mind that the reeason you are a target probably has nothing to do with the information on your box. Instead you are a target so they can use your machine to attack someone else causing you to be suspecded by your ISP. And for any who would doubt their ISP to put a mis-configured router on the internet, that is what allowed Yahoo and several other major sites to be taken down. A number of DOS attacks only work because of mis-configured routers. (This includes allowing source routing and allowing network wide pings to occur from outside the local net.) -- Kirk Wood Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net ------------------ Seek simplicity -- and distrust it. Alfred North Whitehead
