Skliarouk Arieh wrote: > Is anyone using "Floppy based distribution" to share ADSL/Cable in > Israel? > > There is a lot of them on http://lwn.net/Distributions/, but I decided > to ask in the list before trying.
I, as well as many others, use something similar to the architecture that you mentioned. In my specific case, it is not exactly ADSL+cable, but ADSL+FR. And it is not exactly "floppy-based", but floppy+CDR: In these distros, the CDR contains an image that was downloaded from the "vendor", which is the same for all the users. All the differences and specific configurations are located at the floppy. Usually, the floppy is loaded into ramdisk and mounted as "/etc". The floppy is write-protected, and only when I change something, I write-enable it for a few SECONDS, and save the changes. In my specific case, I use Devil-Linux, but consider migration to Wolverine. Currently, the "share" is not full: Although sessions that were initiated here are masqueraded and use both connections (FR AND ADSL), sessions that were initiated by external machines route only through the FR (until somebody will help me to set-up BGP, and then I'll have multi-routing with the same IP's through different ISP's). I installed 4 NIC's on that "router": 1. FR (goes to Aquanet through a Cisco 1005). 2. ADSL (goes to 012 through Alcatel). 3. Hub of DMZ (DNATed). 4. Hub of MZ (masqueraded). I had quality problems with non-3Com NIC's, so replaced all of the 4 to 3Com. I plan a fifth NIC, connected to an access-point of 802.11b. And a tip: Never choose 2.2-based distro (e.g. Smoothwall); You never can know when you will need iptables. -- Eli Marmor [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO, Founder Netmask (El-Mar) Internet Technologies Ltd. __________________________________________________________ Tel.: +972-9-766-1020 8 Yad-Harutzim St. Fax.: +972-9-766-1314 P.O.B. 7004 Mobile: +972-50-23-7338 Kfar-Saba 44641, Israel ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
