hi sreekanth First of all u have to make the server acting as a gateway by giving one of the nic (say eht0 which is directly connected to ur isp via dialup/isdn/leased)the ip provided by the isp & the other nic (say eth1 which is connected to ur 100mbps switch/hub)a local ip (used only in lan) on ur client side give all of them the gateway as the server's lan ip, Configure Squid proxy on ur server which is also a caching server thus providing a very fast access to net for all the client . do configure ur clients browser to access the net through proxy , if netscape then edit->preferrence-> advance-> proxies-> manual then ip of the proxy server & it port mainly 3128 or 80 (http port) if IE the tools->internet option-> connection->proxy-> then ip of the proxy server & port as above. for more info on squid refer http://www.squid.org also in the linux archive somebody few days back have provided the steps for configuring squid. let the server forward ip to the router, also map the ports on the router for which u wanna give access to the outside world using NAT(network address translation) hope this will work for u Dipankar On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, S r e e k a n t h saw fit to infom me : what apps are u using on the clients ?? do u want to u r internal ips to be live ?? if yes visit www.linuxvirtualserver.org if no read man ipchains hope this helps regards yunus > friends, > > I have 5 systems out of them one is a server and all the > other systems and the server forms a lan. Now i was given one IP address > and i want to connect to the outside world thru the server. What all i > have to do to configure a router in the server? I have also 2 network > cards in the server system. I am connecting all the systems in the lan > with 100 Mbps 8-port switch. expecting ur suggestions in configuring the > router so that i can connect from the pc in the lan to the outside world. > > Also, tell me how to give the connections using switch between server, > workstations & outside world???? > > - Sreekanth > > > ---------------------------------------------- > LIH is all for free speech. But it was created > for a purpose. Violations of the rules of > this list will result in stern action. ---------------------------------------------- LIH is all for free speech. But it was created for a purpose. Violations of the rules of this list will result in stern action. _____________________________________________________ Chat with your friends as soon as they come online. Get Rediff Bol at http://bol.rediff.com ---------------------------------------------- Find out more about this and other Linux India mailing lists at http://lists.linux-india.org/
