On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 18:22:08 +1300 Don Gould wrote: > On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 16:09, Nick Rout wrote: > > > The places where you put the settings so that it comes up nicely and > > automatically are distro-specific - so yes distro is an issue unless you > > are building your own set of control scripts. > > > Yes, agree 100%. > > I'm not sure if my point was missed? > > I think my current biggest issue with more than one nic is that it requires > some real understanding of how routing tables work under linux and should be > set up. > > Things like, how should you design your IP ranges for a small local network > with DMZ with more than one WIFI networks (eg Home and Community WAN)... > How should you set the machine up so that a group of people can share the > same net connection via any of the above... > > How should you set up traffic control and some accounting? > > Can you set up pppoe sessions for users on the wifi to use? > > If you set up pptp server with tunnels then how to you route those with NAT > to give the users access to the net connections without the rest of the > networks. > > While I understand most of these in theory I seem to spend hours to not end > up getting much running, so I'm interested in seeing the experts set them up. > > Cheers Don
Take a look at this for inspiration http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040930.html -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
