On Mon August 16 2004 10:50 am, Thinker wrote:
Hello All,
I have just switched from Phone line DSL to Cable Modem Broadband. The bad news is, in order to get support from Adelphia, I have to use one of their preapproved cable modems for the connection.
The good news is, I have a spare machine and a couple of Network cards here that I can use for a router, and I hear that Linux is very good for just such a solution.
The question is, does the latest SuSE have an out-of-the-box fix for sharing a broadband connection? I am thinking I can come out of the cable modem into the Linux box on eth0 and have it handle the Firewall/Routing and DHCPing. Then come out of the linux box on eth1 to the switch and wireless access point connecting my other machines and my laptop to the network.
Make sense? If so, is SuSE my answer or should I be looking for another way to do this?
Thanks,
.:Thinker
Lots of answers to this. You can use SUSE's firewall on the spare machine and use http://susefaq.sourceforge.net/guides/fw_manual.html as a guide. There are other Linux firewall products such as Shorewall (http://shorewall.net/) and FWBuilder (http://www.fwbuilder.org/) and there are even CD or floppy based firewalls to get really secure. Webmin is also another option for configuring. There are the small home/office router/firewall/Ethernet switches put out by Linksys/Cisco, Netgear, SMC and others. Some of the Linksys and others are Linux based and there are 3rd party firmwares available that can make these very attractive alternatives to a full PC router/firewall. Less power consumption, no fan noise, dedicated to specific purpose without hard drives, floppies, CDs, etc to maintain. Short answer: yes, SUSE can be used for this. Long answer: yes, there are lots of choices! Stan