On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 09:30:16PM +1200, Vik Olliver wrote: > On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 16:00, Jim Cheetham wrote: > > Can you share it - yes, enable IP routing on your machine. > > Can I track it - yes, especially with ipfw counters > > Can I restrict it - yes, with ipfw dummynet > > Act as an ISP? - yes, use a radius authentication server, hooked to some > > interesting db of clients (ldap recommended :-) > > Is it legal? - that I don't know. > Can you share a downloaded file - yes, if you want to. Have your own webserver or ftp server running. On your own network? - yes, same method, or samba or nfs, or scp. Can they use files - what difference is there between sharing something, and having it used? Yes, by default, I guess. If you let people log in to your machine, they could run X applications with the display on their machine, is that what you want? (caveat - remote X has loads of security issues. Get them to use ssh to mitigate some of them) Apache cache? - Apache doesn't have a cache - but you could install squid - in fact, you would want to have a proxy anyway, to cut down on load to the Internet. Intranet web server - yes, you probably already should be running an apache for the file sharing question :-)
> It gets gloriously sticky here... I think that might depend on what files you wanted to share ... But, seriously, security becomes a big question when you start to encourage other people onto your LAN and machine. Think carefully! -jim
