was .. Re: kclug - cable/dsl

[P.M.]

I was looking through old messages trying to figure out if I need to compile to
get additional IP's out of my nic and which option I need to make sure and have
on.  I have Slackware 7.1

The following is reguarding an old message I found and shown below my
answer/point:

I was doing this at work for a while, and it worked fine. However uunet did
route 10.*.*.* I doubt people could get to me. I did a port scan on 10.* since
I was doing things like this and it was not suposted to be routed. I found
several voice servers, routers, fax servers, etc. I had a uudial ISDN with a
Pipeline 50

Tony Hammitt wrote:

>
> > > 'ifconfig eth0:1 <local IP address>'  Now you can have a
> > > static /etc/hosts files and place to forward IP packets to.
> >
> > Hmm, so you only have one NIC on your masquerading machine?

> My internal network is 10.1.blah.blah so the routers won't forward any
> packets

> bound for elsewhere on the LAN.  Internally, the switch takes
> care of making sure no other boxes are seen.
>
> So, I don't think any packets leak out since they are never
> forwarded unless I forward them.  The system works fine.  I've