Am Dienstag, 27. Juli 2004 19:52 schrieb Terry E. Milnes Jr.:
I would like to setup my system as a transparent proxy and firewall for the rest of my PC's. Is this possible as I already have a router that all of the systems use to connect to the internet(which is also my cable modem, so I can't take it out of the loop)? If so, how would I go about doing it?
as far as i understand cable modem setups (which is not very far due to the fact that its virtually impossible to get cable internet in germany), all you need to do is buy a second small hub, and some cheapass old box off ebay, with two network cards. then, connect one of those two to the hub which is either built into or connected to the cable modem, and the other one to a hub which is your home network with all other pcs. then, run susefirewall2 on the cheap box, and a dhcp server on the interface connected to your home lan. hope those pointers are enough to get you going in the right direction. bye, MH