[mythtv-users] MythTV Success, Now help me optimize [OFF TOPIC]

[Bill Bradley]

You could create a another subnet and connect the xbox directly to the
2nd card on your mythbackend with crossover cable......


On Sat, 2003-11-22 at 19:18, David Bourgoyne wrote:
> I know this doesn't quit belong here, hence the [OFF Topic] in the 
> subject.  But mythtv-users have been so helpful in the past.
> 
> I have a Linux box with two ethernet cards running a mythbackend and a 
> mythfrontend.  I have a Xbox running a mythfrontend. 
> 
> The first ethernet card is connected to a Linksys firewall as are other 
> computers in my house.  The Linksys routes internet traffic through a 
> cable modem.  Consider this my primary network.  I'd like the Xbox to 
> get video from the Linux box over the second ethernet, thereby not 
> loading down the primary network.  What is the best way to do this?
> 
> Bridge, Subnet, etc. 
> 
> Would a bridge even work?  Or is a bridge so transparent that you can't 
> have ports?
> 
> Can you point me to a faq or howto?  Can you show me the output of your 
> netstat -r?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> David
> 
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