Re: Can mono handle two networks one a single nic
"Tonix (Antonio Nati)" <[email protected]>
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Il 02/09/2011 10:05, Ilkka Tengvall ha scritto: > On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Lee Sharp<[email protected]> wrote: >> If you are talking multinet (192.168.3.1/24 and 192.168.4.1/24) it can not >> do this out of the box, (You can with some shell commands) and it is a bad >> idea. But you can do a 192.168.2.1/23 (subnet mask 255.255.254.0) and have >> 510 IP addresses in a single network. >> >> Lee > Would someone mind telling me why monowall community and documentation > considers this as a bad idea? To me the network interface aliasing is > extremely good idea. I'm obviously missing something here, since it's > been so long considered as a bad thing in monowall discussions. > > I claim it's waste of money and resources to buy separate network > cards and switch just to connect two ip's into the same network (or to > connect to external DSL box), in case of not being bottleneck due > heavy traffic. For me personally this along with the missing openvpn > are the only shortcomings of monowall. Use vlans: all problem of having only one card are solved, and security is preserved. Regards, Tonino > -it > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Inter@zioni Interazioni di Antonio Nati http://www.interazioni.it [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------