Yes, I expect it's tautological to say that two cards is safer than one. But, there are also firewalling strategies one can employ with only one card. In fact, I have the logs to prove it--logs which I was happy to share with the FBI, by the bye. On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Kirk Wood wrote: > IP spoofing can also be used for a broader distributed DOS attack. And as > pointed out, all of your services to the internal network are possibly > invaded from the outside. With two cards, you can stop this and more > completely stop internal services from being available to external devices > via spoofing. > > -- Janina Sajka, Director Information Systems Research & Development American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) janina at afb.net