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
Thinker This will work a treat. I have been doing for years, in fact I don't bother with the spare machine - I just use my workstation as the router - although some do not recommend this I cannot see the problem, apart having to have your work station on all the time for the network. I set eth0 to DHCP and the cable modem picks up the IP address from my ISP and then I have a static IP addressed internal network. I suspect that if it is a home network you will not have that many computers to network, I find it easier that way to sort out any network issues. Just set eth1 as 192.168.0.1 and set the other computers in the network 192.169.0.2 etc. Point the default gateway in each of the networked puters to 192.168.0.1. Set up the fire wall on your router. One thing I have found is to make sure the firewalls of the networked boxen are off otherwise I have found issues with file sharing etc. Nick