4.1.19981212013924.00ba85d0@pacbell.net> To: suse-linux-e@suse.com From: lunaslide@pacbell.net (lunaslide) Subject: Re: [SuSE Linux] Company access to the internet with ISDN In-Reply-To: <[SuSE Linux] Company access to the internet with ISDN> At 10:33 PM 12/11/98 +0100, you wrote:

IP-masqurade will work for internet access. I use it here with my lan (NT workstation on one, several windows 95 boxes and one power mac) to access the net. You can configure your mailserver to spool locally with minimal difficulty since that's a fairly common practice anyway, kind of the default...

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IN simpler terms: SuSE linux is your dream come true (at least in this case). :)

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Greetings to all,

I will shorthly receive an old box ( Pentium 90 with 96 Mb RAM, 1 Gb SCSI drive on ADAPTEC 2940)

I was thinking of using this machine to be the dialup server to the Internet and a file server for NT workstations, SGI stations, PC Linux stations ( in a close future ).

I was thinking of using Linux

<snip> This is not to you in particular, but to those who are considering ISDN for a LAN and have some money buring a hole your pocket :-). Instead of dealing with a dialing server and routing and so forth with that, an elegant (though pricey) solution to this problem is a ISDN LAN modem. I chose this option, even though it was more expensive, because I screw around with my machines a lot (I run NT, linux, BeOS, FreeBSD and OpenBSD on one machine alone) and when I screw up the one that dials in, I have no net access under that OS (or sometimes, any). The LAN modem is OS agnostic and configured through a built in http server. I just use a web browser to configure and then leave it alone. Since I have several machines on my network, it's better for me because I only have to set the default gateway and the DNS server to the address of the modem (determined by me) on each of the machines and it simply works. I know it's pricy and some people like the pain of setting up stuff like this, but it's an option. I work as a admin at work. When I come home, I just want it to work :-) - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>