18 Mar
2000
18 Mar
'00
5:15 a.m.
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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Bruce Lane, Owner and head honcho, Blue Feather Technologies
http://www.bluefeathertech.com // E-mail: kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com
Amateur Radio: WD6EOS since Dec. '77
"Our science can only describe an object, event, or living thing in our
own human terms. It cannot, in any way, define any of them..."
18 Mar
18 Mar
6:12 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.
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Bruce Lane, Owner and head honcho, Blue Feather Technologies
http://www.bluefeathertech.com // E-mail: kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com
Amateur Radio: WD6EOS since Dec. '77
"Our science can only describe an object, event, or living thing in our
own human terms. It cannot, in any way, define any of them..."
6:44 a.m.
At 09:12 18-03-2000 -0800, you wrote:
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.
...and that, unfortunately, is EXACTLY what I would need it to do. I'll
look at it, but I doubt it'll help me much.
You could use one or more ShareTheNet routers, or
You mean multiple machines, each one being a router? Yukk... I cringe at
the very thought of the cabling that would entail...
just leave your Web, FTP, Mail server(s) out naked
rather than behind the ShareTheNet firewall.)
No way! Security around here is going to be TIGHT, and that means
everything behind a firewall and NATted. I'm already investigating Linux
and *BSD solutions.
It's shareware, so you can try it (for 30 minutes
at a time) to see if it suits you.
If it can't deal with multiple static IPs, then it is pretty much useless
to me.
Thanks for the reply in any case.
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Bruce Lane, Owner and head honcho, Blue Feather Technologies
http://www.bluefeathertech.com // E-mail: kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com
Amateur Radio: WD6EOS since Dec. '77
"Our science can only describe an object, event, or living thing in our
own human terms. It cannot, in any way, define any of them..."
8:01 a.m.
Try the linux router project - fits on a floppy or whatever, very similar
to sharethenet (which if I remember correctly was a deriverative of
LRP) at www.linuxrouter.org. It's free and there are packages for
everything!
--Nate Grady
nate(a)logicprobe.org
On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, Bruce Lane wrote:
At 09:12 18-03-2000 -0800, you wrote:
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.
...and that, unfortunately, is EXACTLY what I would need it to do. I'll
look at it, but I doubt it'll help me much.
You could use one or more ShareTheNet routers, or
You mean multiple machines, each one being a router? Yukk... I cringe at
the very thought of the cabling that would entail...
just leave your Web, FTP, Mail server(s) out
naked
rather than behind the ShareTheNet firewall.)
No way! Security around here is going to be TIGHT, and that means
everything behind a firewall and NATted. I'm already investigating Linux
and *BSD solutions.
It's shareware, so you can try it (for 30
minutes
at a time) to see if it suits you.
If it can't deal with multiple static IPs, then it is pretty much useless
to me.
Thanks for the reply in any case.
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Bruce Lane, Owner and head honcho, Blue Feather Technologies
http://www.bluefeathertech.com // E-mail: kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com
Amateur Radio: WD6EOS since Dec. '77
"Our science can only describe an object, event, or living thing in our
own human terms. It cannot, in any way, define any of them..."
19 Mar
19 Mar
2:32 a.m.
New subject: Small router
Take a look at picobsd based on FreeBSD.
Bill
At 09:12 18-03-2000 -0800, you wrote:
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.
...and that, unfortunately, is EXACTLY what I would need it to do. I'll
look at it, but I doubt it'll help me much.
You could use one or more ShareTheNet routers, or
You mean multiple machines, each one being a router? Yukk... I cringe at
the very thought of the cabling that would entail...
just leave your Web, FTP, Mail server(s) out
naked
rather than behind the ShareTheNet firewall.)
No way! Security around here is going to be TIGHT, and that means
everything behind a firewall and NATted. I'm already investigating Linux
and *BSD solutions.
It's shareware, so you can try it (for 30
minutes
at a time) to see if it suits you.
If it can't deal with multiple static IPs, then it is pretty much useless
to me.
Thanks for the reply in any case.
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Bruce Lane, Owner and head honcho, Blue Feather Technologies
http://www.bluefeathertech.com // E-mail: kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com
Amateur Radio: WD6EOS since Dec. '77
"Our science can only describe an object, event, or living thing in our
own human terms. It cannot, in any way, define any of them..."
9:56 a.m.
New subject: Small router
----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Pechter <pechter(a)pechter.dyndns.org>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2000 2:32 PM
Subject: Small router
Take a look at picobsd based on FreeBSD.
Bill
Where can I find a llink to picobsd ?
Sipke
18 Mar
18 Mar
6:49 a.m.
In article <38D3B915.3E86153F(a)halcyon.com>om>, David C. Jenner
<djenner(a)halcyon.com> writes
And it IS classic computing--the 386 is over 10
years old!
I have a 486SX25 with a copyright date of 1989 so, I suppose, even that
is technically on topic now.
--
Regards
Pete
9:21 a.m.
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?
Go with OpenBSD. That's what I'm using an mine. Simple test, set up two
boxes side by side. One running Linux, the other running OpenBSD. Then
run Saint on both of them, after that you're likely to never want to run
Linux on a Server again, at least not one connected to the net.
Zane
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