Hello Scott!
Saturday September 06 1997 14:38, Scott Parks wrote to Mark Watkins:
 MW>> 25 terminals in each of the two rooms
 MW>> sharing a netware server each room on a different network
 MW>> card in the server. What I want to be able to do is to allow
 MW>> both of the rooms to get TCP/IP connections to a linux box
 SP> Just wondering why two network cards .... 'twould simplify your
 SP> life with one.
I gues to make the two classromms more independent from eachother. Both for 
'load' and reliability. I gues that they used coax, and if a student in one 
classroom removes a terminator, the other classroom stil works as if nothing 
happened...
If that is the case it would also be better if the linux-box also got two 
networcards one connected to each segment. In that case the novell-server 
does not even have to have IP installed and only the clients that want 
internet access need TCPIP active.
For the linux machine it would hardly make a difference in how to set it up. 
Just give both classrooms their own 'privat' IP-net (e.g. 192.168.16.0 (e.g. 
for classroom 16) and 192.168.20.0 (for the other classroom 20, just to 
remember it easyer, and avoiding the .1.0 nets and .2.0 etc), and let the 
linux machine do the dial on demand and IP-masqurading and local 
-routing...
Roelof
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