Thanks for the information. Best, Keith B. Dave Smith wrote:

On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 08:48:13AM -0400, kbb0927@cs.com wrote:

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But since she lives so far away, I would like to know and learn what to set up so that I can dial in to the router/gateway to handle any problems but yet maintain a secure setup. I do not want to use smoothwall, as I know linux is more secure for this venture, so please don't suggest smoothwall.

Actually, Smoothwall *is* built on Linux. I wouldn't use it for other reasons, though...

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Therefore, what services, daemons, programs are minimally needed to do this? I have all the manuals from my 7.2 Pro, so I can read them and not waste bandwidth on howto, jsut need to know what I need to include on a minimal install.

If you're willing to log in over the net (and therefore have both machines connected at the same time), you need 'ssh' (see the openssh package in SuSE). This provides an encrypted connection to the other machine. Make sure you leave the SSH port (22) open to the outside world (or at least your own IP address) when you set the machine up. Of course, make sure you run a firewall, (SuSEfirewall2 seems to be pretty good - easy to set up...)

If you want to dial into her machine directly, then you need to set her machine up as a PPP server; see the PPP-HOWTO.

HTH...

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