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On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 19:23 -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote:
> Gary Kline wrote:
> 
> [...big snip...]
> 
> > 	if i've made any sense so far, great!  if not,i'm open for
> > 	questions.  i'm also open for suggestions on how to alter this
> > 	network configuration.  
> > 
> > 	thanks for reading this far.
> > 
> > 	gary
> > 
> > 
> > It might be simplest to replace my firewall and my server with
> > low-energy-usage i386 computers; is there a better way?
> 
> What are your requirements for your network ie. are you requiring any
> fancy trickery, or is this simply trying to NAT a couple of machines
> behind an ADSL connection?

No trickery; just trying to run a few desktops and a firewall plus my server.  
Of course, at the lowest power use, meaning that I'm trying to combine
servers, and so on.


> Steve