[NMLUG] 2nd nic

[timothyemerick at yahoo.com (Tim Emerick)]

I've already been beaten up by the security guys on this list about it but
here's a quick snapshot.  I'm on a corporate WAN.  Everything is filtered and
off-shore IP's are blocked by their routers.  Being the local IT guy, I'm
always having to download drivers (from taiwan, etc), research various
hardware/software issues on google groups (which is blocked), etc.  What I'm
attempting to do is bypass the corporate security by making a router of sorts
to access a DSL circuit I installed for Customer Waiting Area by a Select
Number of Computers on the corporate lan.  I don't want the breach to be
openly or widely available or it will certainly be abused which is why I
wanted to install a proxy software using some non-standard port.

Really, it's just for convenience.  What I'm currently doing is unplugging
the cable for the corporate WAN and plugging in a cable for the DSL
connection whenever I need access to the DSL line.  It's a pain but it works.

My other option (which would require an additional PC) is to just use a
smoothwall machine (http://www.smoothwall.org) to bridge the two networks.

Tim

--- Andres Paglayan <andres@paglayan.com> wrote:

> why not tossing the T1 if it's so lame?
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