From: "Geo" 

Easy answer, find the scope your netgear is set to use, reduce it to a
smaller scope of IP addresses then pick one of the ones it doesn't hand out
via dhcp now and set that address as the static for your samba box. That
way you are still on the same subnet but the IP address will not change,
everything else should work just like it does now.

Example, say the netgear is using addresses 192.168.254.1 thru
192.168.254.254 for it's scope now, change that so it only uses
192.168.254.1 thru 254.128 and set 254.200 as the static IP on the samba
box.

Geo.


"Randall Parker"

wrote in message news:44c42779{at}w3.nls.net...
> My Linux box has an ethernet port that connects to my firewal box. The
> firewall does sharing of a single DSL modem internet connection for
> multiple PCs. At the moment I have both this Linux box and a WinXP Home
> laptop connected to the internet. That works.
>
> Question: In order to make my Linux box into an SMB server I think I
> need to add a static IP address to the Linux box on that ethernet port.
> Can I do that and still have the Linux box get a dynamic IP address from
> the firewall for internet traffic?
>
> Question: I'm assuming the firewall (Netgear FVG318 Prosafe VPN
> Firewall) will pass local traffic between local PCs as well as route
> certain traffic out onto the internet. Is that correct?
>
> Question: I'm also assuming the firewall recognizes by the destination
> IP address whether the packet has a local or internet destination. Is
> that correct?
>
> Another alternative I have is to use a second ethernet port in the Linux
> box and connect that to the Firewall as well and assign a local IP
> address to that port for local traffic. Not sure if doing that would
> help any.
>
> Question: What sort of IP address to use as a local address?

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