Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2269 mails)

[tduggan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Tim Duggan)]

Hi,

On 10/23/00 at 6:49 PM Timothy R. Butler wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>  Does anyone here know if/how well a router (for sharing broadband
internet like
>@Home cable internet) works in Linux? I'm looking at the Linksys
4-port Cable/DSL
>Router (Average Retail $179, Amazon.com $149), which provides a
"natural
>firewall", DHCP services, and a 10/100 (with "Full Duplex 200 Mbps")
4-Port
>Switch.
>
>  Any experience with using one of these things with Linux?

I picked up a Netgear 314 router which provides the same functions. I
am very pleased with its performance. I am using it with DHCP (to get
its own and to serve my network). I can confirm that it works with
SuSE 6.3, 6.4 (x86 and AXP), 7.0 (all with dhclient IIRC), Debian
potato, Win 98, NT and MacOS 9 and 8.6. I imagine the Linksys would
be little different as a friend runs one with Macs and RH. One of
these days I'd like all the machines on the router to be net servers
and run a choke firewall behind it for the clients, but time is short
and necessity (motivation) is low.

Someone on the list gave me this link which I found very informative
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/index.htm

Good luck and enjoy,
Tim


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