Half-assed...you said it!  Your effective bandwidth would drop to whatever the link cable supports, which might be somewhere around serial port limits, maybe 115 kilobits or so?  I can only imagine what a pain it would be to write software to handle that kinda situation, too.  If the link cable supported bandwidth great enough for some kind of clustering technology (though I don't know if clusters can pool devices...), it *MIGHT* work.

I'm not trying to rip on anyone, but why not just go out and get a used pentium, a pair of PCI NICs, and slap linux/BSD/*nix on there?  If you have a broadband internet connection and a burner, you can download the ISOs for free.  Linux 2.4 comes w/netfilter (aka iptables), and BSD has SPF (? -- stateful packet filtering...maybe I'm making that one up...), so now you can NAT all your home machines, including your DC.  A used pentium on ebay will probably cost less than $50.  The NICs, $5-15 each.  Way better than $100 DCs and $60-80 BBAs, right?  I must admit, having a DC as your firewall is high on the coolness factor, but probably low on the realism factor.

-Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Swimm [mailto:kradlabs@texas.net]
> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 8:25 PM
> Cc: port-dreamcast@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: Visual Firewall; was: Activity
> 
> 
> 
> Well to be really half assed, could connect two dreamcast via the link
> cable, each with its own bba? In one dc out the other?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> _____________________
>        .<>.
> Peter  Lewis   Swimm
> 
> On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Drew P. Vogel wrote:
> > > Is it possible to connect two BBAs to a DC? Also, is it 
> feasible to
> > 
> > No, as far as I've seen that's hardware-wise not possible. 
> > 
> > 
> > > control two BBAs with netbsd?
> > 
> > In theory, no problem (Where was that mail showing dmesg of 
> a PC with
> > 15(?) network interfaces? :-). In practice, see above.
> > 
> > 
> >  - Hubert
> > 
> > -- 
> > Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
> > 
> > 
>