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
Some of us use BBIagent, http://BBIagent.net which is a floppy install and accessed from a remote browser that's java enabled or using javaws. It lets you set up everything in a simple manner without having to delve into NAT internals, it's very flexible, I use it to pass ports for internal machines for hamradio VOIP, gtk-gnutella, gnomemeeting, Cisco VPN to our corporate servers when I was a working fellow, etc. The only thing is it looks like it's not been developed in a while. The guy was hoping to sell a package that would allow saving the config to floppy or other media, so when I have to take it down and up again, it takes a few minutes to set it up again. I'm just using an old Cyrix M200+, 16M, 2x ethernet cards and a floppy. Does the business, though I'm thinking of getting something on CD, I've seen others, but searching on freshmeat last night, I couldn't find any - forgot the names of the ones I've seen. If you want a Rolls Royce setup, http://www.astaro.com, it does the works, anti-virus spam, content filtering, VPN, multiple ethernet connections to the inside/outside etc., I gather it's a big hit with the Corporates and it's free to thee and me. I first used it about 5+ years ago, then it only supported the internal etherenet and dial-up. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer =====LINUX ONLY USED HERE=====