>> I might plan to upgrade to a cable modem, so is it possible to have 2
>> ethernet cards in a computer and route an ethernet connection to ethernet?
>
>It is possible to have 2 Ethernet cards in the same computer, but I'm not
>sure exactly what you mean by "route an ethernet connection to ethernet".
>On my home system, I have a Q700 with an Ethernet card and a modem.  The
>Ethernet card is connected to a small hub which connects the other
>machines on my tiny LAN together.  The Q700 runs PPP over the dialup
>connection and uses IPNAT to route stuff from the other machines through
>the dialup line.  It works pretty well :-)  I presume this is more or less
>what you're looking for?

No, he means that he wants to use the NetBSD box to route between one
Ethernet device and another, while using IPNAT for this. Cable modems use
Ethernet interfaces, so won't be using a typical serial modem. While it
should no problem to do, the biggest question would be getting the cable
modem's Ethernet card to be supported. I don't know what kind of cards they
use for Macs (I use ISDN personally), but I know that most have no trouble
working with Linux on the PCs.

Mike

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