network gateway with a foreign IP address

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Claude Jones wrote:
> 
> This is where I need better argumentation...if you can help, it would be 
> appreciated. Specific examples of why it's a bad idea, security problems that 
> could occur, other issues...unfortunately, this configuration has been handed 
> to me, it's not my idea, so I need to understand what's wrong with it and be 
> able to offer sound arguments for the more conventional approach, if there's 
> is a really sound technical reason for not doing it this way. 
> 
> I'm also dealing with the fact that another Linux box, a mail server, has been 
> moved on to this new FIOS lan and configured using the hack that I cited in 
> my original post, and is working quite nicely - unfortunately, I don't 
> clearly understand how to implement that hack on Fedora, but, I'm getting 
> the "if Jack could do this with his Debian box, why can't you with your 
> Fedora?"....
> 
The bes argument for not doing it this way is "Why make things more 
complicated then they need to be."

Mikkel
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   Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!

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