18 Mar
2000
18 Mar
'00
3:12 a.m.
Bruce,
Try ShareTheNet (http://www.sharethenet.com).
It's Linux based and does just about everything
you want to do out of the box. (Except handle
multiple static IPs, which I recall you are using.
You could use one or more ShareTheNet routers, or
just leave your Web, FTP, Mail server(s) out naked
rather than behind the ShareTheNet firewall.)
It's shareware, so you can try it (for 30 minutes
at a time) to see if it suits you.
I've run ShareTheNet for over 1.5 years now on
my DSL line without any problems. I run it on
an old 386 with 8MB RAM, two NICs, a floppy, and
no hard drive, keyboard, or monitor. (Your BIOS
may require a video adapter; I just put in an
old MGA card that was gathering dust.) My system
is in a really small chassis (from RE-PC) and just
sits on the shelf under my Cisco 675.
About the only things I haven't been able to do,
and it's probably because I'm often behind a
firewall at the outside end, is PPTP in to a machine
on my network or use VNC in to a machine on my
network.
And it IS classic computing--the 386 is over 10
years old!
Dave
Bruce Lane wrote:
Hi, folks,
Well, I've run into a snag. Turns out my oh-so-slick Livingston router
won't do ARP proxying along with NAT (both of which are needed to deal with
my DSL hookup for adding servers).
So, I'm going to build a router that does out of an old PC box, a couple
of Ethernet cards, and either Linux or OpenBSD. My first question: Has
anyone on the list done ARP proxying with a home-brew router and one of the
above OS's?
Also, at the risk of venturing slightly outside of the "classic" realm
(not by much -- two years or so if I'm not mistaken), I'm looking for the
100Base-T media module for the Compaq NetFlex-3 NIC. Anyone?
Thanks in advance.
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