Thanks nick! That was a fantastic read!!!
Cheers Don On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 10:36, Nick Rout wrote: > 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 -- Don Gould
