On Wed 20 Dec, Frank Shute wrote:
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 12:16:45AM -0000, James H . Carter & Cybèle de Jong wrote:
Read ALL the books..am still confused...
....Have a Network of PC working under SAMBA ....Want to connect these to the web.... ....Can I do this using a dynamically assigned account from DEMON?
Demon use static IP addresses, and yes you can use this setup.
If the intranet addresses are 192.168.1.1 etc What do I call the Router and the intranet card the router is attached to? 0.0.0.0?
Have you had a look at the Networking-Overview-HOWTO?
The general idea is to assign 192.168.1.1 to the router/gateway and then set the default route of your Windows machines to this IP. Dependent on how big your network is you might want to use DNS. Are you going to use a Linux box as the router? If so you'll need to investigate the use of ipchains (IPCHAINS-HOWTO)
So 192.168.1.1 will be (one of) the network cards in the LINUX box attached to the rest of your network. Make sure you configure the 'gateway' address in the TCPIP bit of the control panel of your PCs. Either you will have a second ethernet card in the LINUX box attached to a router or you have an ISDN card - or - I suppose a modem. This will connect (hopefully) on demand. LINUX will do IP masquerading - and I guess I would advise to do it that way - although for historic reasons we don't. I use a socks (and web) proxy - which come with their own set of problems but does provide more 'control' over external internet access as no-one has direct IP contact with the outside world. As stated on above reply, Demon does NOT dynamically assign you an account - you get a fixed IP address - unless they've changed without telling me. We still have a Demon dialup account to backup our School connect account. -- Alan Davies Head of Computing Birkenhead School