Sorry, I'm kinda sleepy lately and so I'm probably not explaining things clearly.
My home network looks like this:
Internet
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Linux Box
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-Internal Network-
So, in order to route from the internet to a computer on the internal network I have to open up ports on the router to the linux box and then forward them on. Needless to say, this is kind of a pain in the butt.
So, in order to speed this along, and allow myself (and my brothers who live together behind a single router) to log into my system, I added a NIC card to one of my Internal Network computers that attaches directly to the internet.
I'm not having much success with it yet, running into various problems, and I was trying to make sure that the setup I'm using isn't causing problem. IE, the Internal Network computer using the Internal Network routing to send out packets of information that need to come in from the Internet (as the Internet isn't protected (yet) and my internal network is doubly protected)
Does this make any more sense?
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