If you are saying you have a DSL line, then I think you've got a good plan. If you need a router to handle ISDN, I don't have any info. For DSL router/firewalls: I've installed a couple of different brands of those routers. They really do work nice and my Dad managed to install one without me. They can't be too hard to setup. They are NAT firewalls, so if you don't have any servers then they should do the job. i.e. if you have a webserver, smtp server, or you X/telnet/ssh/PCanywhere into your computer from the Internet, then you have to specifically get one that allows that, and you have to do some more advanced config. I even occasionally use a Netgear RT311 to protect a NT server, but never more than one server per RT311. (Thats because you can only specify one server per port to open up. i.e. if you have 2 SuSE boxes you want to telnet into at from the Internet, then you can only open up port 23 for one of them.) HTH, Greg
HI, Y'all. Right now I have three machines on my network; a 7.2 gateway machine running forwarding and masq whose sole purpose is to dial out to the world
over ISDN, and the two machines I use on a daily basis.
I've now got DSL, and the gateway is configured for ISDN. Rather than upgrading the 7.2 to 8 and continuing to use this setup, I'm thinking about a getting a router to do it and bringing the gateway machine (it's a notebook) home and using it for basic stuff with Suse 8.0.
I'm in Germany. My programmer just bought himself a router in the states and said it was basically plug and play: plug the DSL line into the router, plug the other machines into the router, let them get their IP addresses via DHCP (they already do) and basta.
Is this as simple as it sounds? Anyone in Germany have any router suggestions?
Thanks in advance,
nick
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