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Re: [cobalt-developers] 2nd NIC

"William L. Thomson Jr." wrote:

> Pretty much all RaQs come with 2 nics, if my memory serves me correctly.
> I assume there are two so one can be used for an internal interface and
> the other external. So the RaQ can be used as a firewall.

Just a quick note... I believe you _can_ use a linux system with only
one ethernet port (including the RaQs that have only one ethernet port)
with both internet-routable (external) and non-internet-routable
(internal) addresses.

I won't get into the security issues involved; we're still looking at
those.

And we're not planning on using it as a firewall, we're creating a
backup system in private IP space, and some of our systems only have one
ethernet port.

Jeff
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