Hello This depends on a lot of things. For simply sharing an Internet connection and setting up a firewall with DHCP, the Linksys router is the way to go. However, if you want to run a Web, Email, FTP server, etc., it wouldn't hurt to make this the firewall computer anyway. If you host mission critical data though, be careful :). Also, I'm not too sure if Adelphia permits servers on their connections. Ben On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 17:40, Doug McGarrett wrote:
It seems like overkill to devote a whole computer, and its AC power lust to use as a firewall router, when the Linksys BEFSX41 is well under $100 lately, takes about 5" x 7" on the desktop, and draws minimal power from a wall-wart. I bought a machine to do that some years ago, and then realized how ridiculous it was. If you were going to do a server, that would be different. Just my 2C plain. --doug
At 11:50 AM 8/16/2004 -0400, 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
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