Re: How to drop/reject packets amongst LAN clients?

[Antony Stone <Antony@Soft-Solutions.co.uk>]

On Monday 10 May 2004 6:31 pm, michael@floog.net wrote:

> Hi Antony,
>
> Thanks for the rapid response to my post.  I see you what you are
> saying.
>
> Maybe I could add a 3rd NIC to the linux router/firewall box and call it
> eth2 and give it a different subnet like 192.168.2.1 and then
> 192.168.1.9 will become 192.168.2.2 on the new subnet.

That would be an excellent solution - using NAT if you need the other machines 
to think it's 192.168.1.9 instead of 192.168.2.9 (however, they may be happy 
with the real address - it depends what you're using it for).

Regards,

Antony.

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