On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 16:16 -0600, Ted Hilts wrote:
Raoul
If you cannot get any satisfaction from the list then wait a week and try again. There are many talented and helpful people on the list but often not available to help all the time. I know this to be true.
If you still cannot get any satisfaction from the list email me and we start from scratch and I will try my best to help you.
And why did you wait until now to offer help and your own sarcasm? I was at least offering alternative methods of him getting his network up and running.
Raoul Snyman wrote:
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Ken Schneider wrote: | HUH!!! | | If you use the Linksys router there is -NO- need to use pppoe on the | server or any other PC for that matter. It becomes the default route for | all of the other networked gear. PPPOE performed by the Linksys router. i WANT all the internet to go through the server for various reasons. one of them is that here in south africa we have a 2 gig cap on our line and i want to see how much bandwidth each person in the network is using, so that i can be forewarned about hitting our cap.
| It looks like you have very little networking experience and should | learn a few more basics first. thank you for that insult.
This was not meant as an insult. It was meant that more experience is needed before getting this deep into what you want to accomplish. It is far better to know what is being done then just someone telling you to click this and edit that without knowing the consequences and how to recover. You don't start to learn how to change the oil in an engine by first dis-assembling the engine. The best method for having all internet access go through a server is to set a proxy server which you can further setup to control access hours and more. The Linksys router can be setup to restrict all access except what you allow (hint - proxy server, network admin) forcing all others to use a proxy server. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge