Extra IP Address... what to do?

[cotfessi]

My SDSL provider has given me two static IP addresses. I've been using one for my wife's pc and one for mine - we've each been running our own firewall software. I finally got my hands on a third box and I'm almost through configuring it as a central firewall/router. I was going to use one of the two IP addresses as the main outgoing IP... what can I do with the other one?

Maybe this is stupid but can both of these connection be used in tandem? maybe to speed the connection up? I have an extra NIC that I can put into my firewall box. Has anyone ever heard of such a thing? :confused:

Thanks,
cotfessi

[Radar]

Don't know about combining two nics, but you may want to use the other ip to host web and email?

[cowanrl]

Since your Ethernet connection is faster than your SDSL connection, you wouldn't speed things up by using 2 NICs to attach to your SDSL connection(unless it's faster than 100Mb/s).

[cotfessi]

Originally posted by cowanrl
Since your Ethernet connection is faster than your SDSL connection, you wouldn't speed things up by using 2 NICs to attach to your SDSL connection(unless it's faster than 100Mb/s).

I'm confused by your post? I only have SDSL(540k). I have 2 static IP address under the same account. I was wondering if I can put two NICs in the same machine, connect one to each of the static IPs and somehow harness the speed of both of them together...

I vaguely remember reading somewhere a few years ago about using multiple phone modems to speed up a dialup connection.

[jumpedintothefire]

No speed gain to be had, both ip's use the same modem..
Do you have to login (pppoe?) to get your ip??
If they are static you could just use ip-alias to bring up the second ip, could be useful for other things...