Re: [cobalt-users] Why do cobalts have two ethernets anyhow?

[David Lucas <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 03:25 PM 6/6/2003, you wrote:
> I am curious why (some, eg.xtr, 550) cobalts have two ethernet
> interfaces. You can alias many ips to a single interface, which is how
> virtually hosted sites do it.

You can use one for an internal network

> I ask for two reasons. They seem designed to provide ISPs with
> hardware on which to host many sites to be remotely managed. So
> security would not seem to be the issue. [It's not like a linksys
> cable router where you can only manage it from your own lan by
> default.]

I can manage my linksys from outside the internal network.  Can't you?

> They don't seem designed to serve lans in any respect. Most
> of the features if you were using them to run a school or business
> workgroup, etc. aren't there -- (printing, X, etc.); though some like
> samba are.
>
> In any case what to do interfaces gain you? Anything with security or
> ipchains/iptables configurability. Anything with greater throughput?
> It just seems like they are almost designed to have one interface that
> is hardly used or they stopped developing before they added enough
> software for it to all make sense.

And maybe you just don't know what you are talking about.
Maybe you should read a little before mouthing off.


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