[CLUE-Tech] [OT] DSL - multiple IPs.

[Dave Anselmi]

Dave Price wrote:

> I do that here, but i do not use NAT on the cisco router, i have a linux
> box behind it (using one of the statics) which does the NAT; other linux
> boxes have static IP's on the same physical LAN.
>
> BTW, the box that does the NAT only has one ethernet card and virtual
> addresses assigned to it ( i call this 'flat NAT' ).  The main advantage
> of doing it this way, is that i only need one hub/switch for everything;
> the subnetting is logical, not physical. Hey, it works. :-)

That is *very* cool.  I've known that you can do that, and have had people ask
if it was possible (or set it up that way without realizing and wondering why
it doesn't work).  I've met very few people who understand this well enough to
know that it works, and none that have actually done it.

Dave