Routing and bandwidth problem

[Jeff Vian]

Benjamin J. Weiss wrote:

>From: "Jeff Vian" <jvian10 at charter.net>
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>>Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
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>>Not necessary to use that many adapters,  It can easily be done on 2,
>> one for the internet and one for the LAN.
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>>Linux can run multiple IPs on a single adapter by using aliases in the
>>config, and then using the traffic shaper utils you can set bandwidth
>>for each.
>>The only real problem will come in if they decide to snoop and since
>>with this method they would all be on the same physical network they
>>might find the other machines.
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>Actually, if he hooks the four tennents and the router to a five port
>switch, the tennents won't be able to sniff anything but the broadcast
>packets.
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Right, but if they know they were on the same physical network they 
might snoop/play with configs/change IPs, etc. That was my only reason 
for making this comment.

However with careful setup of iptables the MAC address would have to 
match IP so that would not likely be an issue.

>Ben
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