Yeah. It's possible. Essentially you just give the nic another alias (ip
address). This is inherently slower though and from what I've read the
latency on the BBA isn't too good.

On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Andy Michaels wrote:

>Hubert, I got the DC to boot off CD and mount the HPCSH distro as the root
>FS.  What problems are you encountering?  I was also thinking about the
>following:
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>1) using a VMU for system configuration and as a r/w fs
>2) using apache as a remote configuration tool (write some cgi's or
>something)
>3) put a nice flamejob sticker on the DC :)
>
>I read somewhere a reference to only needing 1 NIC to have a
>firewall.  Does anyone know any issues with this?
>
>Andy
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>On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
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>> On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Andy Michaels wrote:
>> > I should be getting my BBA next month when I'm officially out of debt.  I
>> > was thinking about doing some type of "visual firewall" with the DC, but
>> > don't really know where to start.  Is anyone interested in something like
>> > this?
>> 
>> Sure... areas that may be interresting here (and can be used elsewhere):
>>  * get a NetBSD system on a CD, and boot from that (not from BBA)
>>  * get to prepare such a (bootable) CD with NetBSD tools like mkisofs and
>>    cdrecord. (I tried the instructions on Marcus' page, but with little
>>    success so far)
>> 
>> Also, do we have some drivers to talk to the modem, e.g. for dial-out?
>> I had a few students ask the other day as they don't have BBAs...
>> 
>> 
>>  - Hubert
>> 
>> -- 
>> Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
>> 
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