On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 02:06:29PM -0400, Allan M. Wind wrote: | On 2001-07-21 13:17:14, Adam Bell wrote: | | > What I would like to do is have one box, running Debian, which has a | > constant routable IP (via cable or some other sort-of high speed protocol) | > and a normal domain name. | | You could have someone serve dns for your domain, ideally you would | want someone to do secondary dns for you anyways. Alternatively, you | could consider something like dyndns.org which will give you a | hostname in their domain for free (donations are encouraged).
Thanks, I'll have to look this place up :-). | > This will act as a mail server, samba server, FTP server, and | > internet sharing gateway for like four or five machines sitting | > behind it (and also make info on it available to the owners of these | > machines while they are wandering the world via IMAP). | | I suspect that you will not be putting a heavy load on any of these, | so a low-end machine (celeron/duron) should do just fine. Yeah, it all depends on the load. If you will do a lot of work, make sure you have a fast disk first. | > So my question is this: | > | > What kind of hardware, and in what configuration, would be best to throw | > at this problem? What I'm assuming is that I'll need an interface for the | > modem, an interface going into a hub, and interfaces for all the clients. | > Is there a better way to do this? | | wan --- gw --- hub ---- pc1 | \--- pc2 | \-- pc3 | | You might be able to find a switch not much more expense than a hub | these days, but you should go with 100 Mb/s network (cables, network | cards and hub/switch). I'm having good experiences with the D-Link DSS-8+. It is an 8 port (plus 1 uplink) 10/100Mbps ethernet switch. I got it from CompUSA for ~$80. NICs are fairly cheap -- you can get good Linksys/Netgear/D-Link NICs for around $20 each. No-name NICs are fine also if you know what chipset they use (I have one, its a rtl8139). Routing is trivial to setup with the 2.2 kernels -- simply 'apt-get install ipmasq'. I don't know about the 2.4 kernels (other than they use iptables instead of ipchains). -D
