On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Rikard Johnels wrote:
My desired setup:
ISP <----> Linux <---> [hub]<-+--->Linux (rjhn) (SuSE) | +--->Linux (odessa) | +--->Win98 (nedra)
IP's: Gateway : 192.168.0.1 rjhn : 192.168.0.2 odessa : 192.168.0.3 nedra : 192.168.0.4
How do I set it up? IP-MASQ etc..
Look into the SuSE manual, it's extremely easy to achieve that with SuSE. Really. I don't have the 6.0 manual at hand right now. In the 5.3 manual it was in chapter "Networking Linux" section "Firewall and Masquerading". You just need some settings. That's all. If you run into problems come back to me on a private line. BTW: All boxes behind the gateway need a default route pointing to the gateway.
Shall i run a cashing named? If so, how?
Depends on what you want to do. If all mailers directly contact the mail server of your ISP you don't need one. If you want to make the gateway the "smart host" then it makes sense to set up a "slave named". If you can squeeze a static IP out of your ISP you can get a domain and can have as many email accounts on your local system as you want. In that case a named makes sense.
I want ALL workstations to be able to connect to my ISP via ordinary v90 modem "atomagicaly" Time out: 1 min
That's a bit more tricky. I'd suggest you first set up everything else. Then, when all is working you set up dial on demand.
It shall firewall everyting but the usual, FTP, WWW, ICQ etc. ALL boxes must be able to utilise the connection even if another user has opened it.
That is so automatically.
I want the ISP link to be "generic". Ie.. I want to be able to exchange the modem for a cablemodem, satelite link or whatever. Aslong as it connects to the Net.
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