Subject: IPNAT with only one interface?
To: None <netbsd-help@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Simon Raahauge DeSantis <xiamin@scdesantis.ne.mediaone.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 07/16/1998 22:19:03
Currently I'm running NetBSD/mac68k on a Quadra 650 with two ethernet
interfaces, one of which is connected to a cable modem (getting the ip#
via dhcp). The other is connected to my hub (and is 10.0.0.1). I've got
IPNAT running so the (currently one) other machine on my lan can access
the internet. However, I might buy a Sun IPX which would have only one
ethernet interface. If I got that I'd want to use that as my UNIX box so I
wouldn't have to abuse my poor Quadra anymore. This leaves me wondering if
it would be possible to run IPNAT on one ethernet interface (from what I
hear sbus ethernet cards are hard to come by). I've never tried running a
cable modem which isn't directly plugged in, but that doesn't mean it
might not work (Does anyone have any info on this? It's a LanCity Model
LCPET-2). If the modem did work when plugged into a hub, the IPX was also
plugged into that hub, and my two Macs were also plugged in there, could
the IPX do IPNAT for the Macs? Oh, I forgot to mention that the IPX would
be running NetBSD (of course :).

TIA
-Simon Raahauge DeSantis