[Rack] request for an rj45 connection to a NB LAN

[Jonathan Lassoff]

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 5:34 PM, jim <jim at well.com> wrote:
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>   our topology: linksys set to 192.168.173.1 serving
> 192.168.173.0 ; two 1U boxes with static IPs
> 192.168.173.{20,44} ; two switches in the turing
> classroom that let computers in turing join the
> 192.168.173.0 LAN.
>   we want to connect the linksys uplink to 172.30.0.0
> and have it get a dhcp assigned address on the
> 172.30.0.0 LAN and thereby give each of the 1U boxes
> access to the internet so's to download packages (rpms
> for one box and dpkgs for the other).
>   the purpose of the linksys and its ip address (and
> 1U boxes) is to provide an isolated LAN that lets
> people who want to learn linux sys adm stuff make
> mistakes without screwing the NB LAN.

Ah, ok. That makes much more sense.
Hook up the WAN port on the Linksys to any free port.